MONOLATERAL LOW-INVASIVE TREATMENT OF HUMERAL SHAFT FRACTURE IN CHILDREN

Humeral fractures in children are from 4 up to 10% of the general number of child fractures. Recently the trend is marked to expansion of indications to operative treatment despite of mainly conservative treatment of humeral shaft fractures. The experience of humeral shaft fractures operative treatm...

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Published inTravmatologii͡a︡ i ortopedii͡a︡ Rossii Vol. 18; no. 1; pp. 94 - 97
Main Authors Kuzmin, V. P., Tarasov, S. O., Popov, I. N., Mironov, S. V., Voytenkov, A. F., Kononir, N. N., Krylova, N. N.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Russian
Published Vreden Russian Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics 30.03.2012
Subjects
child
ender nail
humeral shaft fracture
osteosynthesis
гвозди эндера
дети
остеосинтез
перелом диафиза плеча
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Summary:Humeral fractures in children are from 4 up to 10% of the general number of child fractures. Recently the trend is marked to expansion of indications to operative treatment despite of mainly conservative treatment of humeral shaft fractures. The experience of humeral shaft fractures operative treatment with use of Ender nails was analyzed. 8 humeral bones were treated with use of 2 nails, 15 humeral bones - with use of 1 nail only. The good and excellent results were received in both groups of patients. At the same time group with monolateral osteosynthesis (with 1 nail) had statistically significant (p
ISSN:2311-2905
2542-0933
DOI:10.21823/2311-2905-2012-0-1-113-117