Bone transport for postinfectious segmental tibial bone defects with a combined Ilizarov/Taylor Spatial Frame technique

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 162-168

  Sala, Francesco ^a   Thabet, Ahmed M ^b   Castelli, Fabio ^a   Miller, Anna N ^c   Capitani, Dario ^a   Lovisetti, Giovanni ^a   Talamonti, Tazio ^a   Singh, Saurabh ^d  

^a OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^b BENHA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^d BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Postinfectious bone defects; Taylor Spatial Frame; Trifocal and bifocal bone transport

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTAL TIBIA FRACTURE; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL TIBIA FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TAYLOR SPATIAL FRAME TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; HUMANS; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951741372     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e3181e5e160     Document Type: Article

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