Operative Treatment of Fractures of the Tibial Plafond. A Randomized, Prospective Study*
- 1 November 1996
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 78 (11) , 1646-57
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199611000-00003
Abstract
We performed a randomized, prospective study to compare the results of two methods for the operative fixation of fractures of the tibial plafond. Surgeons were assigned to a group on the basis of the operation that they preferred (randomized-surgeon design). In the first group, which consisKeywords
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