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A distal clavicle fracture is a common injury of the shoulder joint. Coracoclavicular (CC) stabilization is one of the recommended procedures for treating the distal clavicle fracture. However, it is difficult to pass the suture under the coracoid process with instruments normally available in the operating room (OR). Herein, the autho...
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... in resource-limited settings). To overcome this difficulty in our operation, we did the following. In this technique, first, a 40 cm piece of standard surgical wire is bent in half (Fig. 2), then the looped end of the bent wire is further bent into an L shape (Fig. 3). A right-angle forceps clamp is used to grasp the bent wire at the looped end (Fig. 4), and the looped end passed under the coracoid base from the medial side to the lateral side (Fig. 5) where it is grasped with a pair of surgical clamp scissors and an Ethibond No.2 is inserted through the loop (Fig. 6). The wire is then pulled back under the coracoid process from the lateral side to the medial side of the coracoid base ...
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A distal clavicle fracture is a common shoulder injury. Coracoclavicular (CC) stabilization is a popular procedure for treating this injury. However, with this method, there is a technical difficulty in looping the suture under the coracoid base with instruments normally available in the operating room (OR). Herein, the authors describ...
