A prospective randomized trial comparing nonoperative treatment with volar locking plate fixation for displaced and unstable distal radial fractures in patients sixty-five years of age and older

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 93, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 2146-2153

  Arora, Rohit ^a   Lutz, Martin ^a   Deml, Christian ^a   Krappinger, Dietmar ^a   Haug, Luzian ^a   Gabl, Markus ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CAST IMMOBILIZATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITIES OF THE ARM, SHOULDER AND HAND SCORE; DISTAL RADIAL FRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION AND INTERNAL FIXATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT RATED WRIST EVALUATION SCORE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASTER CAST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIUS; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; RATING SCALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RUPTURE; TENOSYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNA; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION; WRIST;

EID: 83455200026     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.J.01597     Document Type: Article

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