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A COMBINATION EXTRACTOR FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF SMITH PETERSEN PIN
Author(s) -
Hodgkinson Richard
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1966.tb05512.x
Subject(s) - medicine , extractor , thread (computing) , computer science , programming language , engineering , process engineering
Summary The variable types of apparatus used to fix fractures about the hip joint are listed. A combination tool is described which aims at simplifying the problem of extracting some of these pins despite variable thread sizes and shapes.