The AO Phenomenon
Foundation and early years of the Association for the Study of Internal Fixation (ASIF)
Published in November 2001
Book
Hardback
246 pages
978-3-456-83663-8 (ISBN)
Description
The worldwide acceptance of osteosynthesis as a treatment method for a wide range of fractures and their sequelae is the achievement of a small group of Swiss general and orthopaedic surgeons who began to investigate the relevant issues in close collaboration in the 1950s.
Together with inventive designers and metallurgists they created their instrumentation and a research institute in Davos. The ideas of the promotors are supported by experimental investigation.
In recent medical history, the \Association for the Study of Internal Fixation\" is an unusual phenomenon. The author describes the difficult founding and early years as an eyewitness and a clinician.
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Together with inventive designers and metallurgists they created their instrumentation and a research institute in Davos. The ideas of the promotors are supported by experimental investigation.
In recent medical history, the \Association for the Study of Internal Fixation\" is an unusual phenomenon. The author describes the difficult founding and early years as an eyewitness and a clinician.
"