Functional assessment after operative treatment of femoral shaft fracture
Wójcik, K.; Nowak, R.; Wroński, S.; Wojciechowski, P.; Słuzałek, M.
Chirurgia Narzadow Ruchu i Ortopedia Polska 64(1): 31-38
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0009-479X PMID: 10367525 Document Number: 510339
The paper presents results of treatment in 135 patients (aged 16-77 years) with fracture of the femoral shaft treated with one of the four techniques: open intramedullary Küntcher nailing, Zespol fixation, AO plating and closed locked and unlocked intramedullary nailing. The assessment has been based on authors' own 4-grade, 35-points scale involving 7 parameters. Closed intramedullary nailing proved to the most efficient. No reoperation in this group occurred. The percentage of excellent and good results was the highest--96.4% and such was the score--32.6 points. Open methods (Küntcher nailing, Zespol fixation, AO plating) rendered 88.2%, 31.7 points and 59% excellent and good results, 26.2 points in group without complication and reoperated one respectively.