Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases

Femoral non-unions are difficult to treat even for the experienced orthopaedic trauma surgeon. If the non-union follows failure of modern stable internal fixation, the complexity of the management is further increased. We report two cases of stiff hypertrophic femoral non-unions after failed locking...

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Autores principales: Ferreira, N., Marais, L. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Milan 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27234444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11751-016-0254-6
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description Femoral non-unions are difficult to treat even for the experienced orthopaedic trauma surgeon. If the non-union follows failure of modern stable internal fixation, the complexity of the management is further increased. We report two cases of stiff hypertrophic femoral non-unions after failed locking plate fixation that were successfully treated with a new hexapod circular external fixator. In addition to providing the necessary stability for functional rehabilitation and union, the hexapod circular fixator software allows gradual correction of deformities in order to restore the normal mechanical alignment of the limb.
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spelling pubmed-49600562016-08-08 Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases Ferreira, N. Marais, L. C. Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr Original Article Femoral non-unions are difficult to treat even for the experienced orthopaedic trauma surgeon. If the non-union follows failure of modern stable internal fixation, the complexity of the management is further increased. We report two cases of stiff hypertrophic femoral non-unions after failed locking plate fixation that were successfully treated with a new hexapod circular external fixator. In addition to providing the necessary stability for functional rehabilitation and union, the hexapod circular fixator software allows gradual correction of deformities in order to restore the normal mechanical alignment of the limb. Springer Milan 2016-05-27 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4960056/ /pubmed/27234444 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11751-016-0254-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases
title Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases
title_full Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases
title_fullStr Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases
title_full_unstemmed Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases
title_short Femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases
title_sort femoral locking plate failure salvaged with hexapod circular external fixation: a report of two cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4960056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27234444
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11751-016-0254-6
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