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Introduction. Fracture Fixation is a balance of Biology and Mechanics. Race between Bone Healing and Construct Failure. Promote bone healing while considering the mechanical stability/durability of the fixation construct.
Fragmented Fracture: the bone is cracked, but still partially joined. The crack in the bone and osseous tissue doesn’t completely cover the width of the bone either. Non-Displaced Fracture: a bone is broken, but all the bones have stayed in place.
Introduction. Plating with precontoured periarticular locking plates provides angular-stable fixation and is the most commonly used method of distal humeral fracture fixation. Treatment principle. In this fracture, both columns and the articular block are fractured in a simple way.
This article summarizes the management of distal fractures utilizing Acumed fragment-specific family of plates. No single plate option can address every fracture pattern of the distal radius. These fragment-specific plates are usually adjuncts to ...
Fragment-specific fixation can be a useful tool in treating distal radius fractures. In order to best utilize these techniques, surgeons require an understanding of the normal anatomy, fracture patterns, approaches, and fixation strategies.
1 sty 2022 · Fragment-specific fixation—radial column locking plate (A), volar ulnar corner hook plate (B), and dorsal ulnar corner locking plate (C). For smaller or more distal fractures, a wire form, buttress pin plate, free K-wires bent and secured under a plate, or suture anchors can be used.
Manipulate the fracture fragments as little as possible, and preserve their soft-tissue attachments. Once length and alignment are restored, plates alone provide relative stability, and no screws are used in the intervening fracture fragments.
