Treatment of Fractures of the Femur without Splints
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Temporizing management of pediatric femur fractures using J-splints.
This article describes a novel splinting technique for the temporizing management of pediatric femur fractures. The J-splint is a reliable, simple, and rapidly applied splint that prevents many of the complications and pitfalls of other described temporizing measures, such as skeletal traction, skin traction, traction splinting, and posterior splinting. This technique of J-splinting femur fract...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
سال: 1885
ISSN: 0096-6762,1533-4406
DOI: 10.1056/nejm188502051120601