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Bone screws are used to repair fractures and attach devices like plates and nails to bone. There are several types including cancellous, cortical, shaft, cannulated, and locking head screws. Cancellous screws have a large diameter and deeper threads for use in trabecular bone. Cortical screws are fully threaded for use in diaphyseal bone. Lag screws provide interfragmentary compression using a smaller far cortex hole and larger near cortex hole. Position screws maintain fragment position using the same diam
- Author
- Hemanth Gowda
- Language
- EN