Femoral fractures in adolescents: A comparison of four methods of fixation

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1122-1129

  Ramseier, Leonhard E ^a   Janicki, Joseph A ^b   Weir, Shannon ^c   Narayanan, Unni G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CHILD; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIAPHYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77952484468     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.01735     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Hinton RY, Lincoln A, Crockett MM, Sponseller P, Smith G. Fractures of the femoral shaft in children. Incidence, mechanisms, and sociodemographic risk factors. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1999;81:500-9.
2. Macnicol MF. Fracture of the femur in children. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1997;79:891-2.
3. Buford D Jr, Christensen K, Weatherall P. Intramedullary nailing of femoral fractures in adolescents. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 1998;350:85-9.
4. Metaizeau JP. Stable elastic intramedullary nailing for fractures of the femur in children. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2004;86:954-7.
5. Hedin H, Hjorth K, Rehnberg L, Larsson S. External fixation of displaced femoral shaft fractures in children: a consecutive study of 98 fractures. J Orthop Trauma. 2003;17:250-6.
6. Caird MS, Mueller KA, Puryear A, Farley FA. Compression plating of pediatric femoral shaft fractures. J Pediatr Orthop. 2003;23:448-52.
7. Sink EL, Hedequist D, Morgan SJ, Hresko T. Results and technique of unstable pediatric femoral fractures treated with submuscular bridge plating. J Pediatr Orthop. 2006;26:177-81.
8. Winquist RA, Hansen ST Jr. Comminuted fractures of the femoral shaft treated by intramedullary nailing. Orthop Clin North Am. 1980;11:633-48.
9. Gustilo RB, Anderson JT. Prevention of infection in the treatment of one thousand and twenty-five open fractures of long bones: retrospective and prospective analyses. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1976;58:453-8.
10. Ho CA, Skaggs DL, Tang CW, Kay RM. Use of flexible intramedullary nails in pediatric femur fractures. J Pediatr Orthop. 2006;26:497-504.
11. Wright JG, Wang EE, Owen JL, Stephens D, Graham HK, Hanlon M, Nattrass GR, Reynolds RA, Coyte P. Treatments for paediatric femoral fractures: a randomised trial. Lancet. 2005;365:1153-8.
12. Bar-On E, Sagiv S, Porat S. External fixation or flexible intramedullary nailing for femoral shaft fractures in children. A prospective, randomised study. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1997;79:975-8.
13. Flynn JM, Skaggs D, Sponseller PD, Ganley TJ, Kay RM, Leitch KK. The operative management of pediatric fractures of the lower extremity. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2002;84:2288-300.
14. Kirschenbaum D, Albert MC, Robertson WW Jr, Davidson RS. Complex femur fractures in children: treatment with external fixation. J Pediatr Orthop. 1990;10: 588-91.
15. Probe R, Lindsey RW, Hadley NA, Barnes DA. Refracture of adolescent femoral shaft fractures: a complication of external fixation. A report of two cases. J Pediatr Orthop. 1993;13:102-5.
16. Moroz LA, Launay F, Kocher MS, Newton PO, Frick SL, Sponseller PD, Flynn JM. Titanium elastic nailing of fractures of the femur in children. Predictors of complications and poor outcome. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2006;88:1361-6.
17. Leet AI, Pichard CP, Ain MC. Surgical treatment of femoral fractures in obese children: does excessive body weight increase the rate of complications? J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87:2609-13.
18. Narayanan UG, Hyman JE, Wainwright AM, Rang M, Alman BA. Complications of elastic stable intramedullary nail fixation of pediatric femoral fractures, and how to avoid them. J Pediatr Orthop. 2004;24:363-9.
19. Sink EL, Gralla J, Repine M. Complications of pediatric femur fractures treated with titanium elastic nails: a comparison of fracture types. J Pediatr Orthop. 2005;25:577-80.
20. Astion DJ, Wilber JH, Scoles PV. Avascular necrosis of the capital femoral epiphysis after intramedullary nailing for a fracture of the femoral shaft. A case report. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 1995;77:1092-4.
21. Orler R, Hersche O, Helfet DL, Mayo KA, Ward T, Ganz R. [Avascular femur head necrosis as severe complication after femoral intramedullary nailing in children and adolescents]. Unfallchirurg. 1998;101:495-9. German.
22. Kanellopoulos AD, Yiannakopoulos CK, Soucacos PN. Closed, locked intramedullary nailing of pediatric femoral shaft fractures through the tip of the greater trochanter. J Trauma. 2006;60:217-23.
23. Stans AA, Morrissy RT, Renwick SE. Femoral shaft fracture treatment in patients age 6 to 16 years. J Pediatr Orthop. 1999;19:222-8.