A brief report about the concepts of hand disorders in the canon of medicine of avicenna

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1509-1514

  Afshar, Ahmadreza ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Avicenna; Canon of Medicine; hand surgery; history

Indexed keywords

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR DISLOCATION; ACROMION; AMPUTATION; ARM; ARM MUSCLE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AXILLARY VEIN; BITE; BODY POSTURE; CARPAL BONE; CEPHALIC VEIN; CLAVICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPRESSION BANDAGE; DISLOCATION; ELBOW; ELBOW DISLOCATION; EUROPE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEVER; FINGER; FINGER DISLOCATION; FINGER FRACTURE; FINGER NAIL; FINGER PHALANX; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; FOREARM FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GOUT; HAND DISEASE; HAND INFECTION; HEMATOMA; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMERUS; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTRACTABLE PAIN; IRAN; JOINT FUNCTION; LEECHING; LIGAMENT; LITERATURE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METACARPAL BONE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; MUSIC; NAIL DISEASE; NERVE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; PAIN; PHILOSOPHY; PHLEBOTOMY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; RELIGION; SCAPULA; SHOULDER DISLOCATION; SKELETON; SNAKEBITE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TEMPERAMENT; TENDON; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION; THEOLOGY; THORAX; THUMB; ULNA; ULNAR NERVE; WRIST FRACTURE;

ANATOMY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDICS; PERSIA; PHILATELY; PHYSICIANS; REFERENCE BOOKS, MEDICAL; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 80052267638     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2011.06.018     Document Type: Article

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