Surgical treatment procedure used to facilitate healing
This article needs more reliable medical references for verification or relies too heavily on primary sources. Please review the contents of the article and add the appropriate references if you can. Unsourced or poorly sourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "External fixation" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(January 2022)
External fixation
An Ilizarov apparatus is a type of external fixation used to treat limb deformities.
ICD-9-CM
78.1, 79,93.51-93.56, 93.59
MeSH
D016267
[edit on Wikidata]
External fixation is a surgical treatment wherein Kirschner pins and wires are inserted and affixed into bone and then exit the body to be attached to an external apparatus composed of rings and threaded rods — the Ilizarov apparatus, the Taylor Spatial Frame, and the Octopod External Fixator — which immobilises the damaged limb to facilitate healing.[1] As an alternative to internal fixation, wherein bone-stabilising mechanical components are surgically emplaced in the body of the patient, external fixation is used to stabilize bone tissues and soft tissues at a distance from the site of the injury.[citation needed]
^Murphy, Mary Schuler (1 January 2006). "Chapter 27 - Humeral Fractures". Hand and Upper Extremity Rehabilitation (Third ed.). Churchill Livingstone. pp. 369–387. ISBN 978-0-443-06663-4. Retrieved 29 January 2022.
Externalfixation is a surgical treatment wherein Kirschner pins and wires are inserted and affixed into bone and then exit the body to be attached to...
Internal fixation is an operation in orthopedics that involves the surgical implementation of implants for the purpose of repairing a bone, a concept that...
In medicine, the Ilizarov apparatus is a type of externalfixation apparatus used in orthopedic surgery to lengthen or to reshape the damaged bones of...
reported the use of nonbridging externalfixation in the management of distal radius fractures. Bridging externalfixation was introduced by Roger Anderson...
can be highly comminuted, MMF and rigid internal fixation can be difficult. Instead, externalfixation is often used,. Fractures where large cysts or tumours...
orthopedic cast rather than externalfixation. Bone grafting is also helpful in fracture repair. However, internal fixation using plates and screws is...
Frederick Buechel and Michael Pappas using a mobile bearing system. Externalfixation of fractures was refined by American surgeons during the Vietnam War...
place the metacarpal of the middle finger in line with the ulna with a fixation pin. If radial tissues are still too short after soft-tissue stretching...
Nitrogen fixation is a chemical process by which molecular nitrogen (N 2), which has a strong triple covalent bond, is converted into ammonia (NH 3) or...
the fracture pattern. Treatment strategies and fixation methods used include internal and externalfixation, as well as staged approaches, with the aim of...
bent to make the ends meet, and not left as an open part-circle. Externalfixation to hold the parts of the pelvis in place. This caused the pelvis to...
via a corrective osteotomy of the humerus and either internal or externalfixation of the bone until union. Cubitus varus is not able to be diagnosed...
In computer network security, session fixation attacks attempt to exploit the vulnerability of a system that allows one person to fixate (find or set)...
Currently, the uses of bioresorbable metals are as fracture fixation implants Internal fixation is an operation in orthopedics that involves the surgical...
unstable, that is, likely to change alignment without internal or externalfixation. Cervical fracture Fracture of C1, including Jefferson fracture Fracture...
C4 carbon fixation or the Hatch–Slack pathway is one of three known photosynthetic processes of carbon fixation in plants. It owes the names to the 1960s...
threaded half pins are simply unscrewed. Externalfixation via TSFs tends to be less invasive than internal fixation and therefore has lower risks of infection...
which holds the bones in their proper position so they can heal. The externalfixation device is removed after an appropriate time period. Fractures in children...
DCO with externalfixation.[citation needed] Early total care (ETC) became widespread in the 1980s, when studies showed early definitive fixation of long...
A tension band wire is a form of orthopaedic internal fixation method used to convert distraction forces into compression forces, promoting bone healing...
internal fixation of the injury. These procedures are known as Open Reduction Internal Fixation (ORIF) and Closed Reduction Internal Fixation (CRIF). Syndesmotic...
continuous passive motion therapy, casting, and care of patients with externalfixation. Certification in general orthopaedic nursing results in the designation...
conservatively using orthopaedic cast or immobilisation, externalfixation, or internal fixation. After bone fracture, blood cells accumulate adjacent to...
Elmoatasem, Elhussein Mohamed; Nassar, Wael (2013). "Valgus osteotomy by externalfixation for treatment for developmental coxa vara". Strategies in Trauma and...
this disorder include "externalfixation, subcutaneous fixation, internal fixation, and percutaneous cannulated screw fixation." This problem must be...
Global Information
