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External fixation was initially used as a first aid treatment, often temporary, for fractures which were severely open or associated with polytrauma [1], More recently it has been used by some authors as the method of choice in complex fractures of the tibial pilon, and the technique has been steadily gaining in popularity [2–5].
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Manca, M., Lavini, F. (2002). Treatment with External Fixation. In: Fractures of the Tibial Pilon. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2123-5_8
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