Prevention and management of external fixator pin track sepsis

Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-72

  Ferreira, Nando ^a   Marais, Leonard Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Complications; External fixation; Infection; Pin site

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864479787     PISSN: 18288936     EISSN: 18288928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11751-012-0139-2     Document Type: Review

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