Provisional mini-fragment plate fixation in clavicle shaft fractures
Julius A Bishop1, Tiffany N Castillo
1Stanford University Medical Center, Redwood City, California. jabishop@stanford.edu.
Abstract:
Plate fixation has an increasingly prominent role in the management of select clavicle fractures. However, many fracture patterns are not easily reduced and provisionally stabilized with conventional clamp application and lag-screw placement, and maintaining an appropriate reduction can be a challenge. In this article, we present a technique in which a mini-fragment plate is used to provisionally maintain fracture reduction while the definitive plate is applied.
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