Monday, January 4, 2010

Pin fixators

Advantage: routine work, stabilises diaphyseal fractures, good wound access.

Disadvantages: requires reduction, limited angulatory and rotatory deformities, no axial loading permitted, high incidence of union or non-union, angulatory deformities in bone lengthing, no progressive correction allowed.

  • Pin: Schanz screw/half-pin,Steinmann pin
  • Clamp
  • Central body
  • Compression and distraction system

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