Timing for repair of mandible fractures

Laryngoscope

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1160-1163

  Barker, Daniel A ^a   Oo, Kenneth K ^b   Allak, Amir ^c   Park, Stephen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Facial plastics; Mandible fixation; Mandible fracture; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE INFECTION; BONE PLATE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THERAPY DELAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MIDDLE AGED; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958288299     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21775     Document Type: Article

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