External jig-aided intramedullary interlocking nailing of diaphyseal fractures: Experience from a tropical developing centre

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 107-111

  Ikpeme, Ikpeme ^a   Ngim, Ngim ^a   Udosen, Anthony ^a   Onuba, Obiora ^a   Enembe, Okokon ^a   Bello, Segun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAPHYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERLOCKING NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LONG BONE; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE NAILS; DIAPHYSES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751613693     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-009-0949-0     Document Type: Article

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