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Bone Wires

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Definition: Steel wires, often threaded through the skin, soft tissues, and bone, used to fix broken bones. Kirschner wires or apparatus also includes the application of traction to the healing bones through the wires.  do not confuse with BONE PINS see BONE NAILS   
See Also Bone Nails; Bone Screws 		Other names Kirschner Wires; Wires, Kirschner; Wires, Bone; Wire, Bone; Bone Wire

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