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Creating Rigidly Stabilized Fractures for Assessing Intramembranous Ossification, Distraction Osteogenesis, or Healing of Critical Sized Defects
Published on: April 11, 2012
[Primacy of soft tissue reconstruction in complicated tibial fracture--a new concept]
1Berufsgenossenschaftliche Krankenanstalten, Bergmannsheil Bochum, Chirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Abstract:
A total of 158 tibial shaft fractures with soft tissue injuries were treated from 1986 to 1990. In cases with type III open fractures, early reconstructive procedures with local or free flaps were carried out after radical debridement. After 12 months 95% of these fractures had healed. Postoperative infection occurred only in 4 (2.5%) of these 158 tibial shaft fractures with soft tissue damage. Before 1986, without these principles, the infection rate of type III open fractures was 17%.

