No Difference in Adverse Events between Surgically Treated Reduced and Unreduced Distal Radius Fractures

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 521-525

  Teunis, Teun ^a   Mulder, Frans ^a   Nota, Sjoerd P ^a   Milne, Leslie W ^a   Dyer, George S M ^a   Ring, David ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

adverse events; distal radius; fracture; reduction; unstable

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGIDITY; SPLINTING; TENDON RUPTURE; UNITED STATES; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC MANIPULATION; RADIUS FRACTURES; SPLINT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MANIPULATION, ORTHOPEDIC; MIDDLE AGED; RADIUS FRACTURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLINTS;

EID: 84944724160     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000000379     Document Type: Article

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