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Screws and Plates and Their Application

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Manual of INTERNAL FIXATION

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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. (1991). Screws and Plates and Their Application. In: Manual of INTERNAL FIXATION. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02695-3_3

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