Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment of acute minimally displaced and undisplaced scaphoid waist fractures: Pairwise and network meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Ibrahim, Talal ^a   Qureshi, Assad ^a   Sutton, Alex J ^a   Dias, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fracture; meta analysis; randomized controlled trial; scaphoid

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAST APPLICATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; MINIMALLY DISPLACED SCAPHOID WAIST FRACTURE; OPEN HERBERT SCREW FIXATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS SCREW FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANGE OF MOTION; UNDISPLACED SCAPHOID WAIST FRACTURE;

EID: 80055050428     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2011.08.033     Document Type: Article

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