The Bath bridge angle-guide.
A device is described which facilitates the accurate location of a guide-pin for the placement of the sliding lag screw when treating fractures of the subtrochanteric zone of the femur with any of the modern sliding hip screw plates.
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Bath & Wessex Orthopaedic Hospital and Royal United Hospital, Bath.
D004867:Equipment Design; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments