Correction of post-traumatic lower limb deformities using the Taylor spatial frame

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 723-730

  Ganger, Rudolf ^a   Radler, Christof ^a   Speigner, Bernhard ^a   Grill, Franz ^a  

^a ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL SPEISING   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE BOWING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE INFECTION; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEG INJURY; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; LEG MALFORMATION; MALE; NERVE INJURY; OSTEOTOMY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; BONE MALFORMATION; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE MALALIGNMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955935267     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-009-0839-5     Document Type: Article

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