[External fixator in the district hospital].
Follow-up checks were performed on 59 cases of external fixation between 1 and 9 years after operation. Complications are not severe, and all patients of this group finally had achieved a good or very good functional end result. External fixator is found a favourite method for use in an ordinary hospital as the author's. The criteria of indication particularly found a new evaluation. The need of giving the external fixator in accurately defined instability is emphasized.
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Chirurgische Abteilung, Kreiskrankenhauses Weisswasser.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D016267:External Fixators; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009104:Multiple Trauma / Q000601:surgery; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D011542:Pseudarthrosis / Q000601:surgery; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000601:surgery; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology
Der Fixateur externe im Kreiskrankenhaus.