3-Fluted orthopaedic drills exhibit superior bending stiffness to their 2-fluted rivals: Clinical implications for targeting ability and the incidence of drill-bit failure

Injury

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 734-741

  Bertollo, N ^a   Gothelf, T K ^a   Walsh, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

2 Fluted; 3 Fluted; Accuracy; Bending stiffness; Skiving; Surgical drill

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE BOWING; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; DRILL; FRACTURE FIXATION; GEOMETRY; HAND PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE STIFFNESS; ORTHOPEDICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGEON;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES;

EID: 44949141950     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.11.286     Document Type: Article

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