title: A cheap external fixator device.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Collure
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001864:Bone Wires; D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000601:surgery