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A Gigli saw is a flexible
A Gigli saw is a flexible wire saw
A wire saw is a saw that uses a metal wire or cable for mechanical cutting of bulk solid material such as stone, wood, glass, ferrites, concrete, metals, crystals etc.. Industrial wire saws are usually powered. There are also hand-powered survi ...
used by surgeons for bone cutting. A Gigli saw is used mainly for amputation
Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on ind ...
, where the bones have to be smoothly cut at the level of amputation.Kojiro Wada, Kentaro Mori, Terushige Toyooka, Naoki Otani, Kazuya Fujii, Hideaki Ueno, Satoshi Tomura, Arata Tomiyama, Safe fronto-orbito-zygomatic osteotomy using a diamond-coated threadwire saw in orbito-zygomatic craniotomy, in Asian J Neurosurg, vol. 10, n. 3, 2015, pp. 250-252
The saw was invented by Italian obstetrician Leonardo Gigli to simplify the performance of a lateral pubiotomy in obstructed labour
Obstructed labour, also known as labour dystocia, is the baby not exiting the pelvis because it is physically block during childbirth although the uterus contracts normally. Complications for the baby include not getting enough oxygen which may ...
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See also
*Instruments used in general surgery
There are many different Surgery, surgical specialties, some of which require very specific kinds of Surgical instrument, surgical instruments to perform.
General surgery is a specialty focused on the Abdomen, abdominal contents, as well as the ...
References
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