Efficacy of different fixation devices in maintaining an initial reduction for surgically managed distal radius fractures

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Geller, Loren ^a   Bernstein, Mitchell ^a,b   Carli, Alberto ^a   Berry, Greg ^a   Reindl, Rudy ^a   Harvey, Edward ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONVALESCENCE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS FRACTURE; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WRIST INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HAND STRENGTH; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; QUEBEC; RADIUS FRACTURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350050055     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: 14882310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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