Introduction: Nonunion or pseudarthrosis is the leading late complication of humerus shaft fractures. This study's objective was to report our department's experience managing humeral shaft.Patients and Methods: a cross-sectional study with retrospective collection descriptive type lasting ten (10) years from January 2010 December 2020. It focused on files patients hospitalized treated for nonu...

The treatment of pubic ramus nonunion is usually surgical. We report the successful healing of a hypertrophic nonunion of pubic ramus in a 46 year old active male patient who was treated conservatively with a lumbo-sacral corset. We believe that understanding the injury mechanics in pelvic injury is more important to employ a particular treatment method than to follow the conventional ways of t...

We describe a new surgical treatment of atrophic nonunion of the clavicle. The nonunion is excised by cuts at 45 degrees to the long axis and repair uses 3.5 mm pelvic reconstruction or dynamic compression plates, with a lag screw to provide interfragmentary compression. The site is grafted with cancellous bone. We have been successful in all seven patients, with early return to normal function...

Nonunion of intertrochanteric fractures is uncommon but its effects are disabling. We describe a modification of the medial displacement and valgus osteotomy of Dimon and Hughston (1967) which we used in seven fractures, six of which united within 16 weeks. Postoperatively, hip function was good. The method provides good initial stability, a source of cancellous bone graft, good postoperative h...

Evidence of substantial growth in unionization among university noninstructional staff over the past 20 years (Hurd and Woodhead, 1987) and the emergence of a quality movement in higher education linking employee attitudes toward the work environment with increased productivity point to the need for additional research into union and nonunion staff perceptions of the work environment. This pape...

We describe a percutaneous technique for screw fixation of all types of fractures of the scaphoid. During a 15-year period ending in 1984, 280 cases were treated by this method; 198 of them returned for evaluation in 1986 and comprise the material for this report. After a mean postoperative time of 82 months, 89% of the recent fractures had united as well as 81.8% of those with delayed or nonun...

BACKGROUND Scaphoid nonunion is very rare in childhood. CASE REPORT A 14 year old boy with scaphoid nonunion confirmed with CT did not past scheduled surgery. In spite of the short period of immobilisation union occurred and two years after the injury he was completely asymptomatic. CONCLUSIONS We suspect that injury to the scaphoid, in this case may have accelerated the union shortly befor...

OBJECTIVES To assess the results and clinical outcome of delayed union and nonunion humeral shaft treatment using locked medullary nails. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The Russel and Taylor humeral locking nail was used to treat 21 patients with humeral shaft fractures at Al Razi hospital, Kuwait, from 1997 to 2001. Of these, 8 had delayed union and 13 nonunion. Also, 13 had previous operative treatme...

Most clavicle fractures heal without difficulty. However, radiographic nonunion after distal clavicle fracture has been reported in 10% to 44% of patients. Type II distal clavicle fractures, which involve displacement, are associated with the highest incidence of nonunion. Several studies have questioned the clinical relevance of distal clavicle nonunion, however. Nonsurgical and surgical manag...

A 65-year-old male originally had surgery for spondylolisthesis at L5-S1 in 2008 and then went on to have an L4-5 transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) with pedicle screw fixation from L4 to S1 and interbody graft in 2010. Despite having two surgical procedures, he continued with intractable back pain and was told he had a failed lumbar fusion. When he was evaluated with a computerized ...