Elsevier

Injury

Volume 19, Issue 6, November 1988, Pages 415-420
Injury

The AO tubular external fixator in the treatment of open fractures and infected non-unions of the shaft of the femur

https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(88)90137-4Get rights and content

Abstract

A series of 14 cases of open fractures of the shaft of the femur and another group of 13 cases of infected non-union of the shaft of the femur are reported. They were treated with the AO tubular external fixator.

The complications and results are assessed and it is concluded that the AO external fixator system has a valuable part to play in these difficult cases.

References (7)

  • A. Coppola et al.

    Use of the Hoffman external fixator in the treatment of femoral fractures

    Clin. Orthop.

    (1983)
  • E. Dabezies et al.

    Fractures of the femoral shaft treated by external fixation with the Wagner device

    J. Bone Joint Surg.

    (1984)
  • K. Klemm
There are more references available in the full text version of this article.

Cited by (12)

  • Use of combined Taylor Spatial Frame (TSF) and Ilizarov for delayed treatment of femoral shaft fracture presented 6 weeks after injury-A case report

    2011, Injury Extra
    Citation Excerpt :

    Deformity correction in all planes as well as equalization of LLD was achieved in all patients. Healing of femoral shaft fractures can be achieved using external fixators as definitive treatment.13,4–6,9,3,1,20,18,2 Reported union rates with definitive external fixators are variable in the literature between 70–100% with higher rates in closed fractures in comparison to open fractures.21

  • Management of infected femoral nonunions with a single-staged protocol utilizing internal fixation

    2009, Injury
    Citation Excerpt :

    There is a tremendous amount of literature dealing with the treatment of infected nonunions of long bones,1,4,5,16,19–22,24,28,31 with most specifically looking at the tibia.6,8–10,13,23,25,27,30,32 There are also many reports pertaining to treatment of nonunions of the femoral shaft, but these include few or no septic nonunions.2,3,7,12,14,17 To our knowledge, there are only two retrospective series dealing specifically with the treatment of infected femoral nonunions.15,33

  • Single-plane external fixation of fresh fractures of the femur: Critical analysis of 53 cases

    2005, Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Reparatrice de l'Appareil Moteur
View all citing articles on Scopus
View full text