Circular external fixators (CEFs) are successfully used in orthopedics owing to their highly
favorable stiffness characteristics which promote distraction osteogenesis. Although there …

Fracture healing is a very complex physiological process involving multiple events at
different temporal and spatial scales, such as cell migration and tissue differentiation, in …

Objective The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of insertion angles on the
pullout strength of connected pins using a synthetic model simulating a hand bone. Material …

Introduction: Bone healing can be improved by axial micromovement, as has been shown in
animals and human patients with external fixators. In the development of smart fracture …

Background Pediatric supracondylar humeral fractures present considerable surgical
challenges due to the difficulty of achieving proper fracture alignment and stable fixation …

External fixation is an essential surgical technique for treating trauma, limb lengthening and
deformity correction, however infection is common, with infection rates ranging from 4.5 to …

Background An external fixator is an orthopaedic device used to stabilize long bone
fractures after high energy trauma. These devices are external to the body and fixed to metal …

Monolateral pin-to-bar-clamp fixators are commonly used to stabilize acute extremity
injuries. Certain rules regarding frame geometry have been established that affect construct …

Existing annotation tools are mainly designed for visible images to support supervised
learning problems for machine learning. A few tools exist for extracting temperature …

Fractures in the lower extremities are sometimes accompanied by severe damage, so
definitive treatments with extensive surgical exposure are impractical. Extensive …