Clinical outcomes of corrective osteotomy for distal radial malunion: A review of opening and closing-wedge techniques

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1619-1626

  Wada, Takuro ^a   Tatebe, Masahiro ^b   Ozasa, Yasuhiro ^a   Sato, Osamu ^c   Sonoda, Tomoko ^a   Hirata, Hitoshi ^b   Yamashita, Toshihiko ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hakodate Goryokaku Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BONE DISEASE; BONE GRAFT; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OSTEOTOMY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL MALUNION; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW;

EID: 80052870154     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.J.00500     Document Type: Review

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