Success rate and complications of comminuted intra-articular distal radius fracture treatment via closed reduction and use of a mini-external fixator

Trauma Monthly

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Nasab, Mohammad Hossein Karimi ^a   Azar, Masoud Shayesteh ^a   Moghaddam, Samira Fazel ^b   Taghipour, Mehrdad ^c  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Closed reduction; Comminuted; Distal radius; Mini external fixator

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MINI EXTERNAL FIXATOR; PIN TRACT INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC OSTEOPOROSIS; RADIUS FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84954190251     PISSN: 22517464     EISSN: 22517472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/traumamon.18885     Document Type: Article

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