Comparison between radial head replacement and open reduction and internal fixation in clinical treatment of unstable, multi-fragmented radial head fractures

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1071-1076

  Chen, Xiao ^a   Wang, Si Cheng ^a   Cao, Lie Hu ^a   Yang, Guo Qing ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Su, Jia Can ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PROSTHESIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BROBERG SCORE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELBOW DISLOCATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MORREY SCORE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL HEAD PROSTHESIS; RADIUS HEAD FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; JOINT PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIUS FRACTURES; TITANIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961167448     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-010-1107-4     Document Type: Article

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