Overdesign of external fixation systems.
This article reviews 850 cases of open fractures of the extremities caused by high velocity missiles and shell fragments, and treated by two varieties of external fixation devices. If a protocol for grading the severity of injury is followed, the results encourage avoiding sophisticated, expensive, and overdesigned external fixation systems.
Habboushe
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MP
Al-Rasheed Military Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.
D004867:Equipment Design; D016267:External Fixators; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000145:classification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000150:complications