Ender nail: Is the old implant effective today?

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 217-221

  Zehtab, Mohammad Javad ^a   Ahadi, Keivan ^b   Sadat, Mir Mostafa ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZANJAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ender nail; Tibial fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE; TIBIA TUBEROSITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7944228811     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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