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Screws and Plates and Their Application

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Screws are used either to fasten plates or similar devices onto bone, or, as lag screws, to hold together fragments of bone.

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Schatzker, J. (1992). Screws and Plates and Their Application. In: Allgöwer, M. (eds) Manual of INTERNAL FIXATION. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77380-8_3

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