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Fractures, Open

Known as: Fracture, Open, Fracture, Compound, fracture opened 
A traumatic break to the bone in which the continuity of the bone has broken through the skin.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2016: towards curated quantitative interactions between 1300 protein targets and 6000 ligands
The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY (GtoPdb, http://www.guidetopharmacology.org) provides expert-curated molecular interactions… 
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Minimally invasive versus open oesophagectomy for patients with oesophageal cancer: a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Natural fractures in the Barnett Shale and their importance for hydraulic fracture treatments
Gas production from the Barnett Shale relies on hydraulic fracture stimulation. Natural opening-mode fractures reactivate during… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Prevention of infection in the treatment of one thousand and twenty-five open fractures of long bones: retrospective and prospective analyses.
In 673 open fractures of long bones (tibia and fibula, femur, radius and ulna, and humerus) treated from 1955 to 1968 at Hennepin… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein-2 for Treatment of Open Tibial Fractures: A Prospective, Controlled, Randomized Study of Four Hundred and Fifty Patients
Background: The treatment of open fractures of the tibial shaft is often complicated by delayed union and nonunion. The objective… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Fix and flap: the radical orthopaedic and plastic treatment of severe open fractures of the tibia.
We performed a retrospective review of the case notes of 84 consecutive patients who had suffered a severe (Gustilo IIIb or IIIc… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
Open pulled straw (OPS) vitrification: A new way to reduce cryoinjuries of bovine ova and embryos
Although cryopreservation of certain mammalian embryos is now a routine procedure, considerable differences of efficiency exist… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Factors influencing infection rate in open fracture wounds.
Seventy-seven infections in 1104 open fracture wounds were evaluated to identify those factors that predisposed to infection… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Problems in the management of type III (severe) open fractures: a new classification of type III open fractures.
Between 1976-1979, 87 Type III open fractures (in 75 patients) were treated at the Hennepin County Medical Center. Factors… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Validity of cubic law for fluid flow in a deformable rock fracture. Technical information report No. 23
The validity of the cubic law for laminar flow of fluids through open fractures consisting of parallel planar plates has been… 
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