External fixation device

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1990-01-18

1991-06-18

Hafer, Robert A.

Surgery

Instruments

Orthopedic instrumentation

606 54, 606 59, A61F 504

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050246186

ABSTRACT:
In an external fixation device for osteosynthesis, pins inserted into a bone are joined to a support rod by a clamp which leaves the end of the pin free to move in an arcuate direction under load, thus avoiding angulation of the pin in the bone and the resulting stress on the bone.

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"Journal of Bore & Joint Sugey" Oct. 1935 p. 1060 Roy R. Schubert, M.D.

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