Outcomes after volar plate fixation of low-grade open and closed distal radius fractures are similar

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 471, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2030-2035

  Kim, Jae Kwang ^a   Park, Sang Doo ^a  

^a Ewha Womans University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; RADIUS FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLAR PLATE; WRIST;

BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, CLOSED; FRACTURES, OPEN; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIUS FRACTURES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLAR PLATE; WRIST JOINT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879312457     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-2798-9     Document Type: Article

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