Sentence examples for using an external fixation from inspiring English sources

Distraction osteogenesis was performed using an external fixation device.

In 2000 Dee et al. showed that by using an external fixation with two ball joints, this manoeuvre can be integrated into the reduction technique for comminuted distal radius fractures [79].

Distraction (∼5 mm) was applied for 2 months using an external fixation frame.

HCO is an open wedge osteotomy based on successive correction of the malalignment using an external fixation [ 18, 19].

Pin-site infections that developed while using an external fixation device were not classified as SSIs so as to adhere to the CDC definition of an SSI, but also because they did not require a hospital admission or surgery and therefore would not be considered a major complication in our department.

Harrison LJ, et al. used an external fixation system in a rodent model to standardize fixation stiffness, also allowing a standard plane of section to be taken [ 51].

It uses an external fixation device with 2 threaded pins in the tibial shaft and 2 in the metaphyseal bone, quite near the tibial joint surface (Magyar et al. 1998).

One study [ 44] showed that almost half of all patients with pelvic fractures likely to benefit from use of an external fixation device probably did not obtain the expected benefit because of the presence of at least one arterial lesion; the implantation of the external fixation device may well have retarded therapeutic embolization in these cases.

According to the abovementioned principles, we proposed the use of autologous periosteum combined with fascia lata using a stable external fixation frame as a barrier membrane.

However access to monolateral fixators designed specifically for limb reconstruction has improved; between July 2001 and March 2006 82 cases of bone defect or limb length discrepancy were successfully treated using a monolateral external fixation system.

Posteroanterior (c) and lateral (d) lateral views of the wrist joint before the application of K-wires, successfulccessful restoration of normal carpal alignment, which was achieved via ligamentotaxis using a wrist external fixation.