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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cristea, Stefan
• Groseanu, F.
• Prundeanu, A.
• Predescu, V.
• Gavrila, M.
• Gartonea, D.
• Papalici, A.

Titel

A new approach in the miniminvasive treatment of fractures

Ist Teil von

• European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology, 2012-05, Vol.22 (4), p.283-287

Ort / Verlag

Paris: Springer-Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The use of biological cement with provisory closed percutaneous Kirschner wire (K-wire) fixation enabled the treatment of 12 patients with fractures. Within the period November 2010—February 2011, we have treated at Saint Pantelimon Emergency Orthopaedics Clinic 12 patients using this specific method, namely: 8 humeral fractures, 1 distal radial fracture, 1 distal radial fracture associated with carpal scaphoid fracture, 1 ankle fracture, and a delayed union of distal tibial fracture. In the specialized literature, the use of bone substitutes or of biological bone cement has never been described in the treatment of fractures without the opening of the fracture site. Some bone fillers for bone defects have been injected before, together with osteosynthesis means, plates and screws, respectively. The assessment of the results has to take into account the consolidation range of each type of fracture, and the cast fixation must be extended accordingly. The recovery shall depend upon the fracture’s callus biology, the fracture’s type and location as well as the age of the patient. We evaluate the results after clinical and radiological criteria. Consolidation was achieved in all cases. We will present also the complications related to first use of this new method. The use of Kryptonite-X injected under fluoroscopic control in the conservative treatment of the fractures is a novelty. Thus, it is introduced the perspective of an innovative way of treating the fractures. Consolidation was achieved in all cases.