Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

alicate conformador

English translation:

modeling/bending/contouring pliers

Added to glossary by liz askew
Jul 1, 2010 19:33
13 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

alicate conformador

Portuguese to English Medical Medical: Instruments
"Em caso de necessidade de conformação da miniplaca em relação a superfície óssea para microplacas de 1.5mm, somente o alicate conformador 1.5 e os alicates planos devem ser utilizados". As microplacas são aplicadas em fraturas ósseas.
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Feb 24, 2011 20:30: liz askew changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1139276">Juliana Rala's</a> old entry - "alicate conformador"" to ""modeling/bending pliers""

Feb 24, 2011 20:31: liz askew changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/589274">liz askew's</a> old entry - "alicate conformador"" to ""modeling/bending pliers""

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modeling/bending pliers

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see page 23

Atlas of craniomaxillofacial osteosynthesis: miniplates, ... - Google Books Result
Franz Harle, Franz Härle, Maxime Champy, Bill ... - 1999 - Medical - 182 pages
4.3 Centre Drive Screws, 2 mm and 1.5 mm Mini Drills A successful osteosynthesis ... 4.5 and 4.6, including plate bending and modeling pliers, plate-holding ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3131164913...



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or

contouring pliers

Orthodontic Pliers / Dental Pliers - Dentalcompare
Band Removing Orthodontic Pliers · Bird Beak Orthodontic Pliers · Bond Removing Orthodontic Pliers · Contouring Orthodontic Pliers ...
www.dentalcompare.com/jump/.../Orthodontic-Pliers-Dental-Pl... - Cached

it definitely isn't "conforming/forming"

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Forearm - Reduction & Fixation - Plates and screws - AO Surgery ...
Simple fractures are treated with anatomical reduction of the ulna and ... use bending pliers to contour the plate to fit the anatomy of the bone (radius). ...
www.aofoundation.org/.../surgery?...bone... - Cached
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LCP Distal Radius System 2.4. Dorsal and volar plates for ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
fracture pattern. Contour the plate to the bone's anatomy with the Bending Pliers. Preliminarily fix the plate by inserting a standard cortex screw ...
www.3033.dk/Synthes-Distal Radius Plate2-4plus2-7.pdf
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Thumb - Reduction & Fixation - Plate fixation - Rolando fracture ...
If a conventional non-locking plate is used, additional bone graft from the ... Use bending pliers to contour the plate. Be careful to bend in between the ...
aofoundation.com/.../surgery?...bone...fracture...%20Rolando%20fracture... - Cached
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Titanium-strip cranioplasty
by GA Blair - 1976 - Cited by 18 - Related articles
enough to overlie intact bone on each side of the fracture is shaped to the desired contour with the use of orthodontic pliers. With the ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1688525/.../brmedj0053...
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Bone fracture reduction device and method of internal fixation of ...
A bone fracture reduction device for the internal fixation and ... When contouring a plate to fit a curved bone surface, circularly fitting screw holes may .... open fracture line) may be accomplished by the use of "Aderer" type pliers ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/4905679.html - Cached - Similar

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as this is about bone fractures and microplates, I would choose

"bending pliers", FWIW.

Manual of internal fixation: techniques recommended by the AO-ASIF ... - Google Books Result
Maurice Edmond Müller, Martin Allgöwer ... - 1991 - Medical - 750 pages
Certain areas of bone, such as the pelvis around the acetabulum, ... See also f. d Hand-held bending pliers for contouring of the narrow DCPs. ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=3540525238...
Peer comment(s):

agree Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
7 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I'm sorry I took ages to answer. Thanks a lot!"
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forming plier

:) A guess
Note from asker:
Thank you Caluwolf!
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conforming plier

É esse mesmo.
Os cirurgiões são carniceiros de luxo :) - as ferramentas utilizadas são as mesmas que as utilizadas por outras profissões para diferentes propósitos.
Geralmente esta levemente adaptada para o uso específico (obviamente) tanto na forma quanto nos materiais, mas é o mesmo conceito e nome...

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I didn't used pubmed or any serious medical resource, as Liz, to check for this... came from the guts and I found a plier with shape that seemed adequate to what I imagined these pliers would look like. FYI.
Note from asker:
Thanks for your help!
Peer comment(s):

neutral liz askew : Hi, your pair of pliers looks nothing like a medical instrument. The surgeon would probably be sued if he used these:) :) Saludos!//I am very sorry to hear that.
11 hrs
Sadly, in some cities of Brazil these would actually be used by "surgeons"... :)
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