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What is this paper
A short technical note describing a creative use of two pieces of standard orthopaedic equipment — an external-fixator connecting rod and a synthetic bone-graft substitute — to lift and re-align a depressed fragment of bone in a fracture of the upper end of the shin (the tibial plateau).
Why does it matter
Tibial plateau fractures often have a piece of joint surface that has been pushed downwards and needs to be raised back to its correct position. The technique described uses a rod normally employed in external scaffolds as a controlled lever for the depressed fragment, then packs the resulting cavity with a calcium-based bone substitute to hold the position. Short technical notes of this kind do not carry a structured abstract; the full description, with figures, is in the original publication on PubMed Central.
Source: Prasad AK, Rashid M, Heidari N. The novel use of an external fixator connecting rod and synthetic bone substitute to achieve anatomic reduction of depressed tibial plateau fracture fragments. Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England 2015;97(1):78. doi:10.1308/rcsann.2015.97.1.78
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