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Example of fracture fixation techniques and hardware. An example of an intramedullary nail used to fix an open diaphyseal tibia fracture (A). The fibula was also fractured but it was not fixed because it is not a weight-bearing bone (A). An example of an external fixation device being used to fix an open tibial fracture (B). To see this illustration in color, the reader is referred to the web version of this article at www.liebertpub.com/wound
