Key result
Open reduction and internal fixation with titanium elastic nails successfully achieved fracture union and pain-free activities of daily living at one year follow-up in a 10-year-old boy with an aseptic nonunion of a subtrochanteric fracture.
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Appropriate surgical management of rare pediatric subtrochanteric fracture nonunions can yield good functional outcomes.
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May support elastic nailing for rare pediatric subtrochanteric nonunion; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
Dharmshaktu et al. (2015) conducted a case report in Aseptic nonunion of pediatric subtrochanteric fracture (n=1). Open reduction and internal fixation with titanium elastic nails was evaluated on Fracture union and functional outcome. Open reduction and internal fixation with titanium elastic nails successfully achieved fracture union and pain-free activities of daily living at one year follow-up in a 10-year-old boy with an aseptic nonunion of a subtrochanteric fracture.
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