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Treatment with Locking Intramedullary Nailing for Intertrochanteric Fracture of the Femur Utilizing a New Awl with a Distal Positioner
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Use of a hollow needle for drilling holes in small bones to guide intraosseous wires
Danish Imran1, Anil Tripathi, Rupert Eckersley
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, SW10 9NH, UK. surgeonimran@yahoo.co.uk
Abstract:
Holes are frequently drilled across small bones to achieve fixation with intraosseous wires. We describe an effective, simple and cheap alternative to the use of K-wires for this purpose in this article.

