Long-term results of dorsally displaced distal radius fractures treated with the pi-plate: Is hardware removal necessary?

Orthopedics

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Tyllianakis, Minos E ^a   Panagopoulos, Andreas M ^a   Saridis, Alkis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; KIRSCHNER WIRE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METAPHYSIS; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PI PLATE; RADIUS FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE MALALIGNMENT; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIUS FRACTURES; RUPTURE; TENDON INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960167024     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20110526-10     Document Type: Article

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