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Creating Rigidly Stabilized Fractures for Assessing Intramembranous Ossification, Distraction Osteogenesis, or Healing of Critical Sized Defects
Published on: April 11, 2012
Static external fixation of finger fractures
1Section of Hand Surgery, University of Berne, Switzerland.
Abstract:
In spite of its similar design constructs, external fixation of finger fractures differs greatly from that of long bones. Besides its common indications in massive, high-energy trauma, and contaminated fractures, it offers true alternatives to open reduction and internal fixation and represents a superior treatment modality in well-selected cases of extensive comminution. Further pending improvement in design will increase its application, although it apparently does not yet resolve long-standing controversies in elective fracture care.
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