TOTBİD Dergisi

TOTBİD Dergisi

2017, Cilt 16, Sayı, 6     (Sayfalar: 507-512)

Humeral non-unions

Serkan Erkuş 1, Önder Kalenderer 1

1 İzmir Tepecik Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Ortopedi ve Travmatoloji, İzmir

DOI: 10.14292/totbid.dergisi.2017.68
Görüntüleme: 582
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İndirme : 1291

Conservative treatment is the basic treatment option in humeral fractures. The most important issue in patients treated with brace or splint is close follow-up of the patients. Due to the mistakes during conservative treatment or deformities developing after muscle tensions, non-union could rarely be observed. Nonunion rates are higher after surgical treatment. Nonunion could be atrophic or hypertrophic. While basic problem in atrophic non-unions is biological, it is stability deficiency in hypertrophic non-unions. The main treatments in atrophic non-unions are refreshing the fracture fragments, compression of the fracture line, and grafting. In hypertrophic non-unions on the other hand, developing the stability usually ends up with union.

Anahtar Kelimeler : humerus; non-union