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Orthopedic hardware removal tools
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| Eli Luong 2006-10-12, 4:28 pm |
| Hi,
I am a college undergraduate student working on a team investigating
alternative methods involved in removing small orthopedic implants from
patients (focusing on screws). I'm having a difficult time trying to
locate information regarding the tools that surgeons use during
implantation and removal. For implantation they seem to use a drill and
then anything after that depends upon the type of screw they use. So it
looks like they use a screw set from some medical company. For removal
I've only seen them use the screw set that came with the original
screws. Are there any other types of tools they use? It would be useful
if I could get a popular company that commonly supplies these tools.
Thanks,
- Eli
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| Dear Eli
Contact AO Foundation. You can go on there site and get hold of the
Rep. who can give all the info
Sanj
Eli Luong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a college undergraduate student working on a team investigating
> alternative methods involved in removing small orthopedic implants from
> patients (focusing on screws). I'm having a difficult time trying to
> locate information regarding the tools that surgeons use during
> implantation and removal. For implantation they seem to use a drill and
> then anything after that depends upon the type of screw they use. So it
> looks like they use a screw set from some medical company. For removal
> I've only seen them use the screw set that came with the original
> screws. Are there any other types of tools they use? It would be useful
> if I could get a popular company that commonly supplies these tools.
>
> Thanks,
> - Eli
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