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Distal femoral fractures: Current treatment, results and problems
- Source :
- Injury. 32:3-13
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2001.
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Abstract
- The evolution of treatment for supracondylar femoral fractures has sequentially addressed the difficulties of alignment, articular reduction, stabilization and fracture union. Adequate surgical stabilization and early motion diminished stiffness, while newer indirect techniques in handling periarticular tissues have greatly improved union rates. Indirect methods of reduction require an understanding of anatomy and deformity to avoid malalignment. The problems we currently face are fixation in osteoporotic bone or small distal articular segments.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
Bone Screws
Fracture union
Knee Injuries
Treatment results
Fracture Fixation, Internal
Fixation (surgical)
Traction
X ray computed
Fracture fixation
Deformity
medicine
Humans
Femur
General Environmental Science
Postoperative Care
business.industry
Surgery
Treatment Outcome
Osteoporotic bone
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
medicine.symptom
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
business
Bone Plates
Femoral Fractures
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00201383
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Injury
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....43a7d4268ea841fe9ad83677d305610f