Temporary external fixation is safe in a combat environment

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Possley, Daniel R ^a,b   Burns, Travis C ^a,b   Stinner, Daniel J ^a,b   Murray, Clinton K ^a,b   Wenke, Joseph C ^a   Hsu, Joseph R ^a,b  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Combat; Damage control; External fixation; Open fractures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HUMAN; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TIBIA FRACTURE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; NOTE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SKELETON TRACTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, OPEN; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, OPEN; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954782682     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e44fcb     Document Type: Article

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