Improvement of the shear fixation stability of intramedullary nailing

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-151

  Wehner, Tim ^a   Penzkofer, Rainer ^b   Augat, Peter ^b   Claes, Lutz ^a   Simon, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b BG UNFALLKLINIK MURNAU   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fracture healing; Interfragmentary movement; Intramedullary nailing; Numerical simulation; Shear fixation stability

Indexed keywords

FRACTURE HEALING; INTERFRAGMENTARY MOVEMENT; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; SHEAR FIXATION STABILITY;

BONE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NAILS; TOMOGRAPHY;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ARTICLE; BONE BOWING; CADAVER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GAIT; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FIXATION; SHEAR FIXATION; TIBIA; TIBIA FRACTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; KNEE JOINT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SHEAR STRENGTH; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 79751528086     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2010.09.009     Document Type: Article

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