Extracorporeal shockwaves versus surgery in the treatment of pseudoarthrosis of the carpal scaphoid

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1306-1313

  Notarnicola, A ^a   Moretti, L ^a   Tafuri, S ^a   Gigliotti, S ^b   Russo, S ^b   Musci, L ^a   Moretti, B ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d SITOD   (Italy)

Author keywords

Pseudoarthrosis; Scaphoid; Shockwaves therapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BONE GRAFT; BONE SEGMENTS; ENERGY FLUX DENSITY; INVASIVENESS; MEAN AGES; POST TREATMENT; PSEUDOARTHROSIS; SCAPHOID; STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TREATMENT; VASCULARIZATION;

STABILIZATION; SURGERY;

BONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAYO WRIST SCORE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LITHOTRIPSY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SCAPHOID BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955381353     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2010.05.004     Document Type: Article

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