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Principles and Complications of External Skeletal Fixation
Historical Background Early Fixators The external fixator was invented 12 years before the plaster cast. In 1846 Jean Francois Malgaigne devised an ingenious mechanism consisting of a clamp that approximated four transcutaneous metal prongs to reduce and maintain patellar fractures…