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.
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2016
Highly Cited
2016
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… (More)
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2008
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2008
Post-mortem correlates of in vivo PiB-PET amyloid imaging in a typical case of Alzheimer's disease
The positron emission tomography (PET) radiotracer Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB) binds with high affinity to beta-pleated sheet… (More)
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2005
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2005
Laparoscopic versus open subtotal gastrectomy for distal gastric cancer: five-year results of a randomized prospective trial.
OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare technical feasibility and both early and 5-year clinical outcomes of laparoscopic… (More)
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2002
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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… (More)
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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… (More)
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Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
The epidemiology of open long bone fractures.
Open long bone fractures occur with a frequency of 11.5 per 100,000 persons per year. They are more common in males and they have… (More)
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Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Acceleration of tibial fracture-healing by non-invasive, low-intensity pulsed ultrasound.
Sixty-seven closed or grade-I open fractures of the tibial shaft were examined in a prospective, randomized, double-blind… (More)
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
[Vacuum sealing as treatment of soft tissue damage in open fractures].
In 1992, 15 of 152 patients with open fractures were treated with vacuum sealing. Drainage tubes are inserted into polyvinyl foam… (More)
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Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Closed intramedullary nailing of femoral fractures. A report of five hundred and twenty cases.
Intramedullary nailing was performed on 520 femoral fractures in 500 patients. The series included eighty-six open fractures and… (More)
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Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
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… (More)
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