Operative and nonoperative treatment of clavicle fractures in adults

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-73

  Virtanen, Kaisa J ^a   Malmivaara, Antti O V ^b   Remes, Ville M ^a   Paavola, Mika P ^a,b  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Centre for Health and Social Economics   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CLAVICLE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SHOULDER JOINT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856862670     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453674.2011.652884     Document Type: Review

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