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In 1984, Faithfull and Timothy Herbert described the use of the Herbert screw for small joint fusion of the hand in the Journal of Hand Surgery [4]. It was their way to illustrate the quality of a wonderful headless compression screw, which would mark the end of the century in interfragmentary screwing of small bones. It was the first time that internal splinting of the small bones was described and more specifically scapholunate synostosis – syndesmosis – with a headless compression screw.
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Goubau, J., Van Hoonacker, P., Berghs, B., Kerckhove, D. (2013). Reduction and Association of the Scaphoid and Lunate (RASL). In: Camus, E., Van Overstraeten, L. (eds) Carpal Ligament Surgery. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-8178-0379-1_27
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