[BOP-polymer implants for fixation of tubular bones and replacement of osseous tissue defects]

The paper provides the functional characteristics of and clinical findings of the employment of 4 pins for osteosynthesis from biocompatible polymers and shows that the pins ensure reliable fixation of bone fragments and due to their ability to resolve in the body they require no repeated operations for their extraction. The application of the polymer pins substantially widens the scopes for reconstructive operations, enables additional fixation to eliminate rotor mobility, additional fixation of bone fragments, allowing for combined osteosynthesis in fractures of the upper and lower thirds of bones. The employment of antimicrobial pins allows one to prevent postoperative suppurations in open fractures and to treat osteomyelitis. The developed material to fill bone defects with PPV ensures a rapid filling of osseous cavilities with its intrinsic osseous regenerates, recovery of normal osseous tissue in Perthes' disease, and fixation of endoprostheses. The author presents a procedure for applying a kit for replacement of skull defects and indicates that the material substitutes defects of various outlines and rapidly restores the strength characteristics of the skull.