Periosteum and muscle is retracted using blunt techniques and the calvarium is freed of soft tissue.
Periosteum and muscle was retracted using blunt techniques and the calvarium scraped free of soft tissue.
Blunt dissection technique with a Kelly clamp is preferred to classical trocar techniques to prevent severe complications, like perforation of thoracic or abdominal organs.
Some studies have reported recurrent complications, including death, misplaced fracture, excess comminution and deep infection in a rat model of femoral fracture using this blunt guillotine technique (Aurégan et al., 2013; Haffner-Luntzer et al., 2016).
The anatomical risks of anterolateral pin insertion has been investigated by a number of authors who have shown that with a blunt surgical technique and fluoroscopic control there was little risk to the lateral cutaneous nerve of the thigh and that the femoral neurovascular structures are well medial [11, 12].
Horror stories, he said, had a place, but "horror injected with a sharp and poisoned needle is just as effective as when applied with the blunt-instrument technique of the so-called Gothic horror tale".
EMG wire electrodes were inserted contralaterally into the nuchal musculature using blunt dissection techniques.
A subcutaneous pouch on opposite sides of each incision was made using the blunt-dissection technique.
In the absence of clinically sound information, payor and regulatory concerns could be expressed in blunt-instrument techniques of cost control and network design.
SBD sharp and blunt dissection surgery technique, mSBD modified SBD.
