Fragmental bone transport in conjunction with acute shortening followed by gradual lengthening for a failed infected nonunion of the tibia

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 420-424

  Takahashi, Mitsuhiko ^a   Kawasaki, Yoshiteru ^a   Matsui, Yoshito ^a   Yasui, Natuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTHROSCOPIC DEBRIDEMENT; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE BLOOD FLOW; BONE DEFECT; BONE INFECTION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE RESECTION; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRACE; CASE REPORT; CAST APPLICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBULA GRAFT; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; LEG LENGTHENING; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RANGE OF MOTION; TIBIA FRACTURE; VASCULARIZATION; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICES; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; OSTEOMYELITIS; RADIOGRAPHY; TIBIAL FRACTURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIBIAL FRACTURES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956468029     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-009-1423-y     Document Type: Article

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