Femoral and tibial blood supply: A trigger for non-union?

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1665-1673

  Santolini, Emmanuele ^a   Goumenos, Stavros D ^b   Giannoudi, Marilena ^b   Sanguineti, Francesca ^c   Stella, Marco ^d   Giannoudis, Peter V ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e CHAPEL ALLERTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL ARTERY; GREATER TROCHANTER; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LESSER TROCHANTER; PERIOSTEUM; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIBIAL ARTERY; TIBIALIS POSTERIOR MUSCLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIBIA FRACTURE;

FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; OSTEOGENESIS; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 84907991540     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.09.006     Document Type: Editorial

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