Is fixation failure after plate fixation of the symphysis pubis clinically important? Trauma

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2154-2160

  Morris, Stephen A C ^a   Loveridge, Jeremy ^a   Smart, David K A ^b   Ward, Anthony J ^a   Chesser, Tim J S ^a  

^a FRENCHAY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATE; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS DIASTASIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; ARTICLE; FRACTURE HEALING; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; CHILD; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS DIASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866448058     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2427-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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