Locking plate osteosynthesis of clavicle fractures: Complication and reoperation rates in one hundred and five consecutive cases

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 689-692

  Fridberg, Marie ^a   Ban, Ilija ^a   Issa, Zaid ^a   Krasheninnikoff, Michael ^a   Troelsen, Anders ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3.5 LCP SYNTHES MODULAR SYSTEM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LOCKING COMPRESSION PLATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDSHAFT CLAVICLE FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REOPERATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; CLAVICLE; COHORT STUDIES; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885032618     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-013-1793-9     Document Type: Article

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