Distal tibial fractures treated with hybrid external fixation

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-258

  Babis, G C ^a   Kontovazenitis, P ^a   Evangelopoulos, D S ^a   Tsailas, P ^b   Nikolopoulos, K ^a   Soucacos, P N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Distal tibia fractures; Hybrid external fixator; Pilon fractures

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTAL TIBIA FRACTURE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE INJURIES; BONE WIRES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 76749104632     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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