The Balkan beam – Florschütz frame and its use during the Great War

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2209-2213

  Fatović Ferenčić, Stella ^a,b   Pećina, Marko ^a  

^a CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

^b Department for the History and Philosophy of Sciences Division for the History of Medicine   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Balkan beam; Balkan splint; Florsch tz frame; History of surgery; Vatroslav Florsch tz (1879 1967); War medicine

Indexed keywords

ART; CROATIA; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INJURIES; LIMB; ORTHOPEDICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SERBIA; WAR;

CROATIA; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; EXTREMITIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDICS; RUSSIA; SERBIA; WORLD WAR I;

EID: 84929288227     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-014-2371-5     Document Type: Article

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