Travmatologiâ i Ortopediâ Rossii (Mar 2012)

MONOLATERAL LOW-INVASIVE TREATMENT OF HUMERAL SHAFT FRACTURE IN CHILDREN

  • V. P. Kuzmin,
  • S. O. Tarasov,
  • I. N. Popov,
  • S. V. Mironov,
  • A. F. Voytenkov,
  • N. N. Kononir,
  • N. N. Krylova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21823/2311-2905-2012-0-1-113-117
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 1
pp. 94 – 97

Abstract

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Humeral fractures in children are from 4 up to 10% of the general number of child fractures. Recently the trend is marked to expansion of indications to operative treatment despite of mainly conservative treatment of humeral shaft fractures. The experience of humeral shaft fractures operative treatment with use of Ender nails was analyzed. 8 humeral bones were treated with use of 2 nails, 15 humeral bones - with use of 1 nail only. The good and excellent results were received in both groups of patients. At the same time group with monolateral osteosynthesis (with 1 nail) had statistically significant (p

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