Resorbable skeletal fixation systems for treating maxillofacial bone fractures

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-129

  Park, Chan Hum ^a   Kim, Hyung Seob ^a   Lee, Jun Ho ^a   Hong, Seok Min ^a   Ko, Young Gil ^a   Lee, Ok Joo ^a  

^a Hallym University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ZYGOMA ARCH FRACTURE;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MAXILLARY FRACTURES; MIDDLE AGED; POLYESTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TITANIUM; YOUNG ADULT; ZYGOMATIC FRACTURES;

EID: 79952021939     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 1538361X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archoto.2010.241     Document Type: Article

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