Complication rates following open reduction and internal fixation of ankle fractures

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1042-1049

  SooHoo, Nelson F ^a   Krenek, Lucie ^a   Eagan, Michael J ^a   Gurbani, Barkha ^a   Ko, Clifford Y ^a   Zingmond, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REOPERATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE INJURIES; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 70350075737     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.00653     Document Type: Article

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