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Editorial| Volume 41, ISSUE 12, P1213-1219, December 2010

Locking plate systems and their inherent hitches

  • Nikolaos K. Kanakaris
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    Academic Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK
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  • Peter V. Giannoudis
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    Corresponding author at: Academic Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Leeds General Infirmary, Clarendon Wing, Level A, Great George Street, LS13EX Leeds, UK. Tel.: +44 0113 392 2750; fax: +44 0113 392 3290.
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    Academic Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK
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      In the early 1980s locking plate technology was introduced in maxillofacial surgery
      • Herford A.S.
      • Ellis 3rd, E.
      Use of a locking reconstruction bone plate/screw system for mandibular surgery.
      • Seward G.R.
      • Foreman B.G.
      Quick-release locking plates.
      and since then it has been relayed in trauma and orthopaedics.
      • Kolodziej P.
      • Lee F.S.
      • Patel A.
      • et al.
      Biomechanical evaluation of the schuhli nut.
      • Simon J.A.
      • Dennis M.G.
      • Kummer F.J.
      • Koval K.J.
      Schuhli augmentation of plate and screw fixation for humeral shaft fractures: a laboratory study.
      More recently, following the development of the LISS (less invasive stabilisation system) and LCP (locking compression plate) systems by the AO/ASIF group,
      • Frigg R.
      Locking Compression Plate (LCP). An osteosynthesis plate based on the Dynamic Compression Plate and the Point Contact Fixator (PC-Fix).
      • Frigg R.
      • Appenzeller A.
      • Christensen R.
      • et al.
      The development of the distal femur Less Invasive Stabilization System (LISS).
      • Perren S.M.
      Evolution of the internal fixation of long bone fractures. The scientific basis of biological internal fixation: choosing a new balance between stability and biology.
      • Wagner M.
      General principles for the clinical use of the LCP.
      this type of osteosynthesis has gained great popularity amongst the surgeons, as well as the implant industries.
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