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Figure 5

From: Double-plating of ovine critical sized defects of the tibia: a low morbidity model enabling continuous in vivo monitoring of bone healing

Figure 5

Radiographic evaluation of complications that have occurred. Radiographic image of a sheep that had to be euthanized 3 month after surgery (Figure 5D). Here both distal screws of the snakeplate were broken and the LCP started to bend. Radiographic image at the end of surgery (Figure 5E1), note screw number 7 in the LCP is not placed bicortical (white arrow). Radiographic image of the same sheep the day after surgery (Figure 5E2). At necropsy a spiral fracture extending through the 2 distal screw holes of the LCP was diagnosed.

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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

ISSN: 1471-2474

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