Critical analysis of causality between negative ulnar variance and kienböck disease

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 899-909

  Stahl, Stéphane ^a   Stahl, Adelana Santos ^a   Meisner, Christoph ^a   Hentschel, Pascal J H ^a   Valina, Stephan ^a   Luz, Oliver ^a   Schaller, Hans Eberhard ^a   Lotter, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BONE NECROSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; ULNA; WEIGHT BEARING; OSTEONECROSIS;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEONECROSIS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULNA; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84885464134     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e31829f4a2c     Document Type: Article

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