Dorsal screw penetration with the use of volar plating of distal radius fractures: How can you best detect?

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2015, Pages e408-e413

  Hill, Brian W ^a   Shakir, Irshad ^a   Cannada, Lisa K ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadaver study; Complication; Distal radius fracture; Extensor tendon rupture; Radiographic evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BONE DENSITY; BONE PLATE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL CORTEX SCREW PENETRATION; DORSAL TANGENTIAL VIEW; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOCKING SCREW; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; VERY ELDERLY; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION; BONE SCREW; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DEVICES; FEMALE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS FRACTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WRIST INJURIES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; CADAVER; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RADIUS FRACTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 84942125089     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000000361     Document Type: Article

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