Conservative management of femoral shaft fractures

Papua and New Guinea Medical Journal

Volumn , Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-151

  Kevau, Ikau ^a   Watters, D A K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; TRACTION THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; GUIDELINES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEW GUINEA; PROGNOSIS; TRACTION;

EID: 0030154050     PISSN: 00311480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. McRae R. Practical Fracture Treatment, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1989.
2. Apley AG, Solomon L. Apley's System of Orthopaedics and Fractures, 7th edition. London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1994.
3. Apley AG, Solomon L. Concise System of Orthopaedics and Fractures, 7th edition. London: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1988.
4. Dandy D. Essential Orthopaedics and Trauma, 2nd edition. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1993.
5. Bem C, Patel JA, Echun DA, Watters DAK. Audit of the conservative management of the fractured femur in Lusaka, 1989-1990. Presented at the Inaugural Scientific Meeting of the Surgical Society of Zambia, Lusaka, 1993.
6. Malgaigne JF, Connaissance J. Med Pratique 1853-1854; 16:9.
7. Parkhill C. Further observations regarding the use of the bone clamp in ununited fractures, fractures with malunion, and recent fractures with a tendency to displacement. Ann Surg 1898;27:553.
8. Codvilla A. On the means of lengthening in the lower limbs. Am J Orthop Surg 1905;3:353-369.
9. Anderson R. Femoral bone lengthening. Am J Surg 1936;31:479-483.
10. Ilizarov GA, Kaplunov AG, Degtiarev VE, Ledaiev IV. Treatment of pseudoarthroses and ununited fractures complicated by purulent infection, by the method of compression-distraction osteosynthesis. [Rus] Ortop Travmatol Protez 1972;33:10-14.
11. Kuntschner GBG. The Kuntschner method of intramedullary fixation. J Bone Joint Surg 1958;40:17-26.
12. Muller ME, Allgower M, Schneider R, Willenger H. Manual of Internal Fixation Techniques Recommended by the AO-ASIF Group, 3rd edition. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1991.
13. van-Niekerk JLM, Schoots FJ. Femoral shaft fractures treated with plate fixation and interlocked nailing: a comparative retrospective study. Injury 1992;23:219-222.
14. Strecker W, Elanga M, Fleischmann W. Indications for operative fracture treatment in tropical countries. Trop Doct 1993; 23:112-116.
15. Brown RM, Wheelwright EF, Chalmers J. Removal of metal implants after fracture surgery - indications and complications. J R Coll Surg Edinb 1993;38:96-100.
16. Benson MKD, Fixsen JA, Macnicol MF. Children's Orthopaedics and Fractures. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1994.