[Compression-distraction osteosynthesis in pseudarthroses of long tubular bones]

An experience of the clinic with treatment of pseudarthrosis of tubular bones in 163 patients, using compression-distraction osteosynthesis is reported. In their anatomical localization pseudarthroses were distributed as follows: the femur-22, the crus-112, the shoulder-22, the forearm-7. The Ilizarov and Gudushauri compression apparatus was employed in 143 patients, compression osteosynthesis after Greifensteiner was performed in 20 patients. The results of treatment were studied in 155 patients within the terms from 10 months to 5 years. Good issues were obtained in 95 (61.3%) patients, satisfactory- in 45 (29%), poor--in 15 (9.7%).