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Fracture Healing

From Bench to Bedside (Physiological and Pathophysiological Aspects)

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Principles of Bone and Joint Research

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This chapter will focus on principles of fracture healing. The reader is introduced to epidemiology, physiology, and pathophysiology of fracture healing, experimental models, as well as principles of conservative and operative fracture treatments.

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  1. Orthopedic Hospital Gersthof, Vienna, Austria

    Nicolas Haffner

  2. Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for experimental and clinical traumatology, AUVA Forschungszentrum, Vienna, Austria

    Nicolas Haffner, Daniel Smolen & Rainer Mittermayr

  3. AUVA Trauma Center Meidling, Vienna, Austria

    Daniel Smolen & Rainer Mittermayr

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  1. Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Peter Pietschmann

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Haffner, N., Smolen, D., Mittermayr, R. (2017). Fracture Healing. In: Pietschmann, P. (eds) Principles of Bone and Joint Research. Learning Materials in Biosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58955-8_7

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