Syndesmotic stabilization in pronation external rotation ankle fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 468, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 991-995

  Van Den Bekerom, Michel P J ^a   Haverkamp, Daniel ^a   Kerkhoffs, Gino M M J ^a   Van Dijk, C Niek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ANKLE INSTABILITY; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBULA FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; ANKLE; ANKLE INJURY; ARTICLE; FIBULA; FRACTURE; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNAL FIXATOR; JOINT INSTABILITY; LIGAMENT; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROTATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; JOINT INSTABILITY; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROTATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950504101     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-009-0823-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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