Recalcitrant Septic Nonunion of the Ulna

An infected diaphyseal forearm nonunion can be a challenge. After several failed salvage procedures, the patient can be left with residual pain, shortening, bone loss, and poor soft tissue envelope. Keystones for infected nonunion treatment are debridement, cultures, antibiotics, stability, and rest...

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Autores principales: Bech, Niels, Kloen, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Infectious Disease
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7137672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32269875
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7195
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description An infected diaphyseal forearm nonunion can be a challenge. After several failed salvage procedures, the patient can be left with residual pain, shortening, bone loss, and poor soft tissue envelope. Keystones for infected nonunion treatment are debridement, cultures, antibiotics, stability, and restore alignment. This report describes the current literature on the treatment of forearm nonunion, and we present a case of a recalcitrant infected ulna nonunion that ultimately healed after 12 surgeries.
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spelling pubmed-71376722020-04-08 Recalcitrant Septic Nonunion of the Ulna Bech, Niels Kloen, Peter Cureus Infectious Disease An infected diaphyseal forearm nonunion can be a challenge. After several failed salvage procedures, the patient can be left with residual pain, shortening, bone loss, and poor soft tissue envelope. Keystones for infected nonunion treatment are debridement, cultures, antibiotics, stability, and restore alignment. This report describes the current literature on the treatment of forearm nonunion, and we present a case of a recalcitrant infected ulna nonunion that ultimately healed after 12 surgeries. Cureus 2020-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7137672/ /pubmed/32269875 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7195 Text en Copyright © 2020, Bech et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Recalcitrant Septic Nonunion of the Ulna
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7137672/
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