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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
Osteosynthesis of fragility fractures
Umberto Tarantino1, Riccardo Iundusi, Domenico Lecce
1Orthopaedics and Traumatology, PTV Foundation, University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. umberto.tarantino@uniroma2.it
Abstract:
The deepening knowledge about bone pathophysiology, together with the development of less invasive bone implants, fitted for the treatment of fragility fractures, the continuous advances in the creation of osteoconductive and osteoinductive biomaterials, the availability of bone active agents, capable of modulating fracture healing, actually represent the orthopaedic "weapons" to improve the surgical outcome and quality of life in patients with osteoporosis.
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