Treatment of subtrochanteric nonunions. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate our results of treating subtrochanteric nonunions with a (AO/ASIF) blade plate. We treated a total of 32 patients (33 hips) with a subtrochanteric nonunion with a blade plate. Outcome measures were time to healing, complications after the index-operation and the Merle d'Aubigne hip score at follow-up. Union was achieved in 32 of the 33 hips after an average of 5 months. Complications were seen in nine patients (nine hips); five complications required re-intervention and four minor complications were treated conservatively. According to the Merle d'Aubigne hip score, 10 patients were rated as excellent, 15 as good and 7 as fair. This study shows that treatment of a subtrochanteric nonunion with a blade plate consistently leads to bony union with a good to excellent hip score in the vast majority of the patients (25 out of 33 hips).

publication date

  • January 18, 2006

Research

keywords

  • Fracture Fixation
  • Fractures, Ununited
  • Hip Fractures

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 31344442618

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.injury.2005.09.017

PubMed ID

  • 16417905

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 37

issue

  • 2