The rate of triangular fibrocartilage injuries requiring surgical intervention

Orthopedics

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Park, Min Jung ^a   Jagadish, Anubhav ^b   Yao, Jeffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM CAST; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE INJURY; CAST APPLICATION; CERTIFICATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANGE OF MOTION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIANGULAR FIBROCARTILAGE COMPLEX INJURY; ULNA SIDED WRIST PAIN; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION; VOLAR WRIST SPLINT; WRIST ARTHROSCOPY; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRIANGULAR FIBROCARTILAGE; ULNA; UNITED STATES; WRIST; WRIST INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROSCOPY; CALIFORNIA; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIANGULAR FIBROCARTILAGE; ULNA; WRIST INJURIES; WRIST JOINT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651373761     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20100924-03     Document Type: Article

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