Complications of Distal Radius Fractures

Hand Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-96

  Turner, Robert G ^a   Faber, Kenneth J ^a   Athwal, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Distal radius fracture; Malunion; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ARTHRITIS; ARTHROPLASTY; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; COMPOUND FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FASCIOTOMY; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT INSTABILITY; KIRSCHNER WIRE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASTER CAST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIAL NERVE; RADIUS FRACTURE; REVIEW; SKIN INJURY; SPLINTING; SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; TENDINITIS; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TRIGGER FINGER; ULNAR NERVE;

EID: 71549135212     PISSN: 07490712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2009.08.005     Document Type: Review

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