1. Two surgical approaches to fracture malunion repair.
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Rahal SC, Teixeira CR, Pereira-Júnior OC, Vulcano LC, Aguiar AJ, and Rassy FB
- Subjects
- Animals, Bone Nails veterinary, Bone Plates veterinary, Bone Screws veterinary, Fracture Fixation methods, Fracture Fixation, Internal methods, Fracture Healing physiology, Fractures, Malunited surgery, Metatarsal Bones injuries, Metatarsal Bones surgery, Osteotomy methods, Radius Fractures surgery, Radius Fractures veterinary, Treatment Outcome, Ulna Fractures surgery, Ulna Fractures veterinary, Birds injuries, Birds surgery, Fracture Fixation veterinary, Fracture Fixation, Internal veterinary, Fractures, Malunited veterinary, Osteotomy veterinary
- Abstract
Two birds were presented with malunion fractures. The first was a young toco toucan (Ramphastos toco) with malunion of the tarsometatarsus that was treated by an opening-wedge corrective osteotomy and an acrylic-pin external skeletal fixator (type II) to stabilize the osteotomy. The second bird was an adult southern caracara (Caracara plancus) with radial and ulnar malunion that was treated by closing-wedge osteotomies. Stabilization of the osteotomy sites was accomplished through a bone plate fixed cranially on the ulna with 6 cortical screws and an interfragmentary single wire in radius. In both cases, the malunion was corrected, but the manus of the southern caracara was amputated because of carpal joint luxation that induced malposition of the feathers.
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- 2008
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