Damage control orthopaedics in the context of battlefield injuries: The use of temporary external fixation on combat trauma soldiers

Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and Research

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 852-859

  Mathieu, L ^a   Bazile, F ^a   Barthelemy R ^a   Duhamel, P ^a   Rigal, S ^a  

^a Percy Military Teaching Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Damage control orthopaedics; External fixator; War surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELBOW FRACTURE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOOT FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; KNEE FRACTURE; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORK RESUMPTION;

ADULT; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; EXTREMITIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83055178594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18770568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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