Bone Healing and Hormonal Bioassay in Patients with Long Bone Fractures and Concomitant Spinal Cord Injury
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The increased rate of fracture healing and abundant callus formation of long bone fractures in patients with concomitant severe acute traumatic head injury is a well-known orthopedic phenomenon, Few studies, however, have reported these phenomena being induced by acute traumatic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI). There is also a well-established clinical relationship between spinal cord injuries and heterotopic ossification [1-5]. The research gap remains to confirm accelerated bone healing in long bone fractures in patients with concomitant SCI and to establish theories about the mechanism causing it.
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