Locked volar plating for unstable distal radial fractures: Clinical and radiological outcomes

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-189

  Knight, Dominique ^a   Hajducka, Carol ^a   Will, Elizabeth ^a   McQueen, Margaret ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Distal radius fracture; Functional and radiological outcome; Locked volar plate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANGE OF MOTION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIUS FRACTURES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RUPTURE; TENDON INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74449090635     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.08.024     Document Type: Article

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