Removal of locked volar plates after distal radius fractures

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 982-985

  Gyuricza, Cassie ^a   Carlson, Michelle Gerwin ^a   Weiland, Andrew J ^a   Wolfe, Scott W ^a   Hotchkiss, Robert N ^a   Daluiski, Aaron ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distal radius; locked volar plate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PAIN; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; LOCKED VOLAR PLATE; MALE; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; SURGEON; TENDON RUPTURE; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIUS FRACTURES; REOPERATION; RUPTURE; TENDON INJURIES; TENOSYNOVITIS; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 79958054537     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2011.03.032     Document Type: Article

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