Ninety-Degree Torsional Contouring of Tibial Plate

K. A. Johnson; S. W. Peterson

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1633137

Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Table of Contents

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

¹From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School Veterinary Medicine, Department Surgical Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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S. W. Peterson

¹From the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School Veterinary Medicine, Department Surgical Sciences, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Plate contouring - plate twisting - tibial fracture

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