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01-12-2015 | Meeting abstract
Injections in hand surgery
Author:
Andrew Chin
Published in:
BMC Proceedings
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Special Issue 3/2015
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Excerpt
Injection is an essential procedure in medicine, let alone in hand surgery. It entails the insertion of a sharp pointed hollow needle into the body for 2 reasons. Firstly, to retrieve tissue samples from the body and secondly, for the delivery of substances into the body. Injection is thus meant for either diagnostic, therapeutic or both purposes. …