[Treatment of diaphyseal fractures of the crural bones]
Vestnik Khirurgii Imeni I. I. Grekova
|March 1, 1985
Abstract:
Results of the treatment of 878 diaphyseal fractures of the shin are analyzed according to the severity of fractures and methods of treatment. The immobilization method was shown to be preferred for light fractures, closed intramedullary osteosynthesis for fractures of the moderate severity, extrafocal osteosynthesis--for critical fractures. Skeletal traction is expedient for fractures of the moderate severity, whose biomechanical characteristics are not suitable for intramedullary osteosynthesis.
