May smokers and overweight patients be treated with a medial open-wedge HTO? Risk factors for non-union

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-339

  Meidinger, Gebhart ^a   Imhoff, Andreas B ^a   Paul, Jochen ^a   Kirchhoff, Chlodwig ^a   Sauerschnig, Martin ^a   Hinterwimmer, Stefan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

High tibial osteotomy; Non union; Open wedge; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951552399     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: 14337347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-010-1335-6     Document Type: Article

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