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A Cheap, Disposable External Fixator for Comminuted Phalangeal Fractures

Y. GODWIN
P. M. ARNSTEIN

From the Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead, UK

Correspondence: Ms Y Godwin, Flat 2 Celtic House, Hooper Street, Cambridge CB 1 2NZ, UK.

Reduction of a severely comminuted fracture of a long bone in the hand can be difficult to hold. An external fixator can be the best method of maintaining satisfactory reduction in such fractures. A small, disposable external fixator is described, made from a syringe barrel and K-wires. It allows accurate reduction with minimal soft tissue trauma and is easy to construct and apply. It allows early mobilization of the digit and is inexpensive.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 23, No. 1, 84-85 (1998)
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-7681(98)80227-1
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