Use of a hollow needle for drilling holes in small bones to guide intraosseous wires.
Holes are frequently drilled across small bones to achieve fixation with intraosseous wires. We describe an effective, simple and cheap alternative to the use of K-wires for this purpose in this article.
Imran
Danish
D
Department of Plastic Surgery, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London, SW10 9NH, UK. surgeonimran@yahoo.co.uk
Tripathi
Anil
A
Eckersley
Rupert
R
Siddiqui
Nashat
N
D001864:Bone Wires; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009339:Needles; D019637:Orthopedic Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation