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Vet Comp Orthop Traumatol 1994; 07(02): 88-90
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1633137
Case Report
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Ninety-Degree Torsional Contouring of Tibial Plate

K. A. Johnson
1   From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School Veterinary Medicine, Department Surgical Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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S. W. Peterson
1   From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School Veterinary Medicine, Department Surgical Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Contouring of a plate with a ninety-degree twist, allowed the plate to be applied medially at the proximal end and cranially at the distal end in a severely comminuted intra-articular and diaphyseal tibial fracture.

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Plate contouring - plate twisting - tibial fracture
 

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