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With modern methods of treatment, delayed union of tibial fractures is no longer a major problem.Nevertheless the problem still exists, and it is the purpose of this paper to correlate the presence of an intact fibula in slow union of the tibia, an intact fibula in the adult apparently preventing satisfactory contact between the tibial fragments.
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F. Fernandez‐Palazzi (1969) studied this question.
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