Kirschner

Named after Martin Kirschner, a German surgeon, a name commonly associated with surgical equipment.

• K. apparatus — a system of stainless steel threaded fixation pins, interconnecting rods, clamps and nuts for external fixation of fractures.
• K.–Ehmer splint — an external splinting device based on transfixation pinning.
• K. wire — a steel wire for skeletal transfixture of fractured bones and for obtaining skeletal traction in fractures.

Kirschner is a surname, and may refer to:

• Aloisia Kirschner, a novelist
• Ann Kirschner, an academic and author
• David Kirschner, a film and television producer
• Diana Kirschner, a psychologist
• Jana Kirschner, a Slovak singer
• Marc Kirschner, a biologist
• Martin Kirschner, a surgeon, or Kirschner wire named after him.

See also

• Kirchner

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