Gigli saw
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A Gigli saw is a flexible wire saw used by surgeons for bone cutting.[1] A Gigli saw is used mainly for amputation, where the bones have to be smoothly cut at the level of amputation.[2] It is also used in veterinary medicine for cutting antler, horn, and tusks, as well as bone.
The saw was invented by Leonardo Gigli, an Italian obstetrician, to simplify the performance of a lateral pubiotomy in obstructed labour.[3]
It is featured in the 2023 American horror film Saw X.[4]
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- ↑ Tomita K, Kawahara N., The threadwire saw: a new device for cutting bone, in J Bone Joint Surg Am, vol. 78, n. 12, dicembre 1996, pp. 1915-1917,
- ↑ 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
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