Surgical treatment of invalids with pseudarthrosis of the humerus
Blinov, B.V.; Kabanenko, I.V.
Khirurgiia 8: 22-25
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-1207 PMID: 2530387 Document Number: 332244
Complex rehabilitation of 132 invalids with unhealed fractures and false joints of the humerus is analysed. Modern methods of surgical treatment were applied: extrafocal distraction-compression osteosynthesis in 45.5% of cases, bone autoplasty in 41.7%, other operations in 2.8% of cases. The differentiated use of the methods of treatment with consideration for the changes developing in the soft tissues and bone structure made it possible to achieve union of the humeral bone fragments and restore the function of the limb and the working capacity of the patients in 96.6% of cases.