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Letter to the Editor| Volume 42, ISSUE 2, P225-226, February 2011

Prof. Vatroslav Florschütz and the Balkan beam frame

  • Roman Pavic
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    Correspondence address: Surgical Clinic, Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Osijek, Croatia. Tel.: +385 31 358 330.
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    Surgical Clinic, Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Osijek, Croatia

    Department of Surgery and War Surgery, Medical School, JJ Strossmayer University, Osijek, Croatia
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      Abstract

      Prof. Vatroslav Florschütz constructed in 1911 an extension table for repositioning bone fracture fragments of the upper and lower extremities, after which a plaster splint was applied—this later became to be known as the Balkan beam frame. Florschütz's personal insistences of new techniques at the beginning of the 1900 have helped shape war surgery and traumatology.

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