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Creating Rigidly Stabilized Fractures for Assessing Intramembranous Ossification, Distraction Osteogenesis, or Healing of Critical Sized Defects
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A traction jig for reduction of distal radial fractures
David Wise1, Tim Coats, Ram Persad
1Accident and Emergency Department, Royal London Hospital, London E1 1BB, UK. davidwise2@hotmail.com
Injury
|January 20, 2004
Abstract:
A traction jig is described which facilitates the closed reduction of extra-articular distal radial fractures and which maintains the reduction whilst a plaster cast is applied. The jig is suitable for use by a single operator in an Accident and Emergency department setting.

