Factors Affecting Healing of Ankle Fractures

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2-5

  Dodson, Nicholas B ^a   Ross, Adrianne J ^a   Mendicino, Robert W ^a   Catanzariti, Alan R ^a  

^a WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone; Diabetes; Dislocation; Fibula; Injury; Mortise; Open reduction with internal fixation; ORIF; Surgery; Tibia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANKLE INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING;

EID: 84871476758     PISSN: 10672516     EISSN: 15422224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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