War-related infected tibial nonunion with bone and soft-tissue loss treated with bone transport using the Ilizarov method

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 739-749

  Bumbaširević, Marko ^a   Tomić, Slavko ^b   Lešić, Aleksandar ^a   Milošević, Ivan ^a   Atkinson, Henry Dushan E ^c,d  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery Banjica   (Serbia)

^c NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone transport; Ilizarov; Infected tibial nonunion; Soft tissue transport; War injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE INFECTION; BONE RESECTION; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV BONE TRANSPORT TECHNIQUE; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOLYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE LOSS; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA DEFECT;

ADULT; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; WAR; YOUNG ADULT; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 77953285044     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-009-1014-6     Document Type: Article

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