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1Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
|January 29, 2003
Abstract:
According to reviews in the literature, only a few case reports have mentioned the unusual migration of K-wires during orthopaedic surgery since 1991. This report emphasises the potential migration of the K-wire during plastic surgery in order to avoid the possible catastrophic complications.

