Editorial: Controversies in the Management of Soft Tissue Injuries
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Controversies in the Management of Soft Tissue Injuries
Soft tissue injuries include a wide and heterogeneous range of injuries. In this issue we cover a range of these topics including negative pressure wound therapy and the evidence-based principles behind its use, multiligamentous knee injuries, knee dislocations, compartment syndrome, and nerve injuries and principles of repair. There are a number of papers on bite injuries ranging from a litera...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Open Orthopaedics Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1874-3250
DOI: 10.2174/1874325001408010140