A cheap external fixator device
Collure, D.W.
Ceylon Medical Journal 35(1): 29-32
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-0875 PMID: 2361228 Document Number: 363636
A cheap external fixator made from readily available materials is described. This device should prove useful in the management of difficult compound fractures of the leg. Multiple staged procedures such as serial debridement, and bone and skin grafts can be carried out while maintaining the fracture fragments in position by means of this fixator.
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