Which Surgical Treatment for Open Tibial Shaft Fractures Results in the Fewest Reoperations? A Network Meta-analysis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 473, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 2179-2192

  Foote, Clary J ^a   Guyatt, Gordon H ^a   Vignesh, K Nithin ^a   Mundi, Raman ^a   Chaudhry, Harman ^a   Heels Ansdell, Diane ^a   Thabane, Lehana ^a   Tornetta, Paul ^b   Bhandari, Mohit ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DATA EXTRACTION; DIAPHYSIS; EMBASE; ENDER NAIL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INFECTION RISK; INTERVENTION STUDY; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIBIA; TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE; TIBIAL DIAPHYSIS; FRACTURE FIXATION; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; REOPERATION; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 84930478596     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-015-4224-y     Document Type: Review

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