Intercondylar eminence avulsion fracture in children: Long-term follow-up of 14 cases at the end of skeletal growth

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 403-408

  Tudisco, Cosimo ^a   Giovarruscio, Roberto ^a   Febo, Alessandro ^a   Savarese, Eugenio ^a   Bisicchia, Salvatore ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

fiberwire suture; knee brace; knee tibial spine; open reduction and internal fixation arthroscopic reduction and internal fixation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTHROMETER; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; AVULSION FRACTURE; BONE GROWTH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT LAXITY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TIBIA; TIBIA TUBEROSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ARTHROSCOPY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MENISCI, TIBIAL; PROGNOSIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955227786     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: 14735865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPB.0b013e32833a5f4d     Document Type: Article

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