出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：Orthopaedics has always been interconnected with implantation of fixation devices for the operative treatment of fractures; the indications have changed over the decades and orthopaedic surgeons tend, nowadays, to be more aggressive, favouring surgery to conservative treatment. In general, there exists a consensus in relation to the need for putting in the devices;; however, their routine removal after fracture healing has always been -and remains- a debatable issue
