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Abstract
A comparison study of the relative strength of tension-band fixation versus cancellous bone screw fixation of medial malleolar ankle fractures was performed on ten fresh-frozen lower limbs from five cadavers. The mean force recorded at clinical failure using cancellous screws was 60.98 N (range 33.49 to 117.86 N) compared with 129.30 N using tension-band fixation (range 85.20 to 194.64 N). Therefore, cancellous screws exhibited only 47.16% the strength of tension-band wiring at clinical failure.Entities:
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Year: 1997 PMID: 9298444 DOI: 10.1016/s1067-2516(97)80074-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Foot Ankle Surg ISSN: 1067-2516 Impact factor: 1.286