Injury
Volume 41, Issue 6 , Pages 583-588 , June 2010

On-table reconstruction of comminuted fractures of the radial head

  • Adrian Businger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Trauma Unit, Kantonsspital Graubunden, Chur, Switzerland
    • Department of Surgery, St. Claraspital, Kleinriehenstrasse 30, CH-4016 Basel, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Thomas P. Ruedi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Trauma Unit, Kantonsspital Graubunden, Chur, Switzerland
    • AO International, AO Foundation, Clavadelerstrasse 8, CH-7270 Davos Platz, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Christoph Sommer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Trauma Unit, Kantonsspital Graubunden, Chur, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Surgery, Trauma Unit, Kantonsspital Graubunden, Loestrasse 170, CH-7000 Chur, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 81 256 62 05; fax: +41 81 256 66 94.

,Accepted 16 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.10.026

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