Medicine:Suzuki frame
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Short description: Medical device
The Suzuki frame is a medical device, used for helping heal broken fingers, especially those with deep, complex intra-articular fractures. Rubber bands are used to generate traction between two metal Kirschner wires that are inserted into the bone on either side of a fracture.[1]
The device was named after its inventor, Yasushi Suzuki, who first described it in 1994.[2]
Footnotes
- ↑ "The Suzuki frame for complex intraarticular fractures of the thumb". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 116 (5): 1326–31. October 2005. doi:10.1097/01.prs.0000181786.39062.0b. PMID 16217475.
- ↑ "The pins and rubbers traction system for treatment of comminuted intraarticular fractures and fracture-dislocations in the hand". Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland) 19 (1): 98–107. February 1994. doi:10.1016/0266-7681(94)90059-0. PMID 8169490.
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