Osteosynthese infizierter Femurpseudarthrosen mit dem Verriegelungsnagel

✍ Scribed by J. Götz; K. Klemm; W. D. Schellmann

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1977
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 687 KB
• Volume: 90
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-3916
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00415481

✦ Synopsis

31 cases of infected pseudarthrosis of the femur were re-osteosynthesized with the interlocking nail. Bony consolidation was obtained in 26 patients, in all cases the chronic osteomyelitic infection subsided with removal of the nail. Pseudarthrosis persisted in 3 cases, after removal of the nail the patients could walk with a walking splint. In one of this group bony consolidation was obtained after repeated interlocking nailing. Persisting pseudarthrosis and infection was the indication for amputation in 2 cases.