Extracorporeal shock-wave therapy compared with surgery for hypertrophic long-bone nonunions

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2589-2597

  Cacchio, Angelo ^a   Giordano, Lucio ^b   Colafarina, Olivo ^a   Rompe, Jan D ^c   Tavernese, Emanuela ^b   Ioppolo, Francesco ^d   Flamini, Stefano ^a   Spacca, Giorgio ^a   Santilli, Valter ^d  

^a SAN SALVATORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Nomentana Hospital   (Italy)

^c orthoTrauma Evaluations Centrum   (Germany)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENERGY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIUS FRACTURES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; ULNA FRACTURES;

EID: 70449753903     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.00841     Document Type: Article

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