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Exchange Nailing for Aseptic Nonunion of the Femoral Shaft after Intramedullary Nailing [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2020 Purpose Although exchange nailing is a standard method of treating femoral shaft nonunion, various rates of healing, ranging from 72% to 100%, have been reported. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of exchange nailing in femoral shaft
Sung-Soo Ha +5 more
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Pan African Medical Journal, 2021 A fracture that lasts for a minimum of nine months without signs of healing for three months is the standard description of nonunion. Plethora of literatures highlights the determinants that increase the risk of nonunion as infections, older age, diabetes, anti-inflammatory drugs, use of tobacco/nicotine, open/compound fracture, low vitamin-D ...
Pragadeesh Palaniappan +1 more
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2021 Background Transverse sternal nonunion is a rare but disabling complication of chest trauma or a transverse sternotomy. Fixation methods, mainly used to manage the more common longitudinal sternal nonunion, often fail, leaving the surgical treatment of ...
Tomaz Malovrh +3 more
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HUMERAL SHAFT NONUNION.
Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery, 2021 BACKGROUND The primary aim was to identify patient and injury factors independently associated with humeral diaphyseal fracture nonunion after non-operative management. The secondary aim was to determine the effect of management (operative/non-operative)
W. Oliver +6 more
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Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2023 Background Clavicle fracture (CF) is the tenth most prevalent fracture, accounting for an annual incidence of 37/10,000. This systematic review highlights the factors contributing to the nonunion union of the clavicular fracture.Method A systematic ...
Shayan Ali Irfan +6 more
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Fracture nonunion in long bones: A literature review of risk factors and surgical management.
Injury, 2020 Nonunion following a long bone fracture causes considerable morbidity when it occurs. Risk factors depend on specific fractures but there is a complex interplay of injury severity, comorbidities, patient medication and infection.
J. Nicholson +3 more
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Targeting angiogenesis for fracture nonunion treatment in inflammatory disease
Bone Research, 2021 Atrophic fracture nonunion poses a significant clinical problem with limited therapeutic interventions. In this study, we developed a unique nonunion model with high clinical relevance using serum transfer-induced rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Cuicui Wang +8 more
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Stem cell research & therapeutics, 2020 As important players in cell-to-cell communication, exosomes (exo) are believed to play a similar role in promoting fracture healing. This study investigated whether exosomes derived from bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMMSC-Exos) could improve ...
Lu Zhang +9 more
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, 2020 Objective The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of nonunion in patients with tibia fracture and the association between influencing factors and tibia fracture nonunion. Method A database searches of PubMed, the Cochrane Library, EMBASE, China
Ruifeng Tian +6 more
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