External fixators and sudden-onset disasters: Médecins Sans Frontières experience

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1551-1554

  Boillot, Francois ^a   Herard, Patrick ^a  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

External fixation; Humanitarian surgery; Sudden onset disaster

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEVICES; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; FRANCE; HAITI; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; FRANCE; HAITI; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905899981     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-014-2344-8     Document Type: Article

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