TOTBİD Dergisi

TOTBİD Dergisi

2017, Cilt 16, Sayı, 6     (Sayfalar: 493-498)

Clavicular non-unions

Mehmet Kapıcıoğlu 1, Kerem Bilsel 1

1 Bezmialem Vakıf Üniversitesi Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji Anabilim Dalı, İstanbul

DOI: 10.14292/totbid.dergisi.2017.66
Görüntüleme: 701
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İndirme : 1662

Clavicle fractures; 2.6–4% of adult fractures, and 35% of fractures around the shoulder. Traditionally, fractures of the clavicle are treated conservatively. Although in previous articles non-unions has been reported with the incidence of 1% for conventional conservatively treated clavicle fractures, the rate of non-union in a new meta-analysis is higher. For this reason, it can be considered that fractures that may result in non-union can be predicted and avoided by surgical treatment prior to undesirable outcomes. In many studies; age, female gender, shortening of more than 2 cm, placement of the distal clavicle, and comminuted fractures have been shown to have a relation with non-union. Radiographic non-union and symptomatic non-union may not always be related to each other. Therefore, every fracture treatment should be evaluated separately.

Anahtar Kelimeler : clavicle; non-union; osteosynthesis; distal