title: [Treatment of distal forearm fractures using external fixation].
abstract: The author presents a group of 37 patients with fractures of the forearm treated by the method of external fixation. Mostly closed fractures of the distal radius were involved which could not be stabilised conservatively by plaster fixation. The method was however also used in open fractures of the forearm and pseudoarthroses at this site. Practically always a closed reposition of the fracture was made, in some cases supplemented by percutaneous transfixation of an unstable fracture by a Kirschner wire.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgické oddĕlení Nemocnice Frýdlant.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fleiberk
mesh_terms: D016267:External Fixators; D005260:Female; D005592:Fracture Fixation / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000601:surgery*