Intramedullary tibial nailing in distal third tibial fractures: distal locking screws and fracture non-union.

Autor:	Aso Mohammed, Ramaswamy Saravanan, Jason Zammit, Richard King
Předmět:	BONE nails (Orthopedics) TIBIA BONE screws FRACTURE fixation TREATMENT of fractures
Zdroj:	International Orthopaedics; Aug2008, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p547-549, 3p
Abstrakt:	Abstract  Distal third tibial fractures are prone to non-union following tibial nail insertion. The purpose of this study was to assess the union of distal third tibial fractures in patients who have undergone intra-medullary (IM) tibial nailing with one versus two distal locking screws. Sixty-five patients who had intramedullary tibial nail fixation were retrospectively analysed. Our results showed that 80% of non-unions in distal third fractures had only one distal locking screw compared to 20% who had two distal locking screws. This is statistically significant (p [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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