Far cortical locking can improve healing of fractures stabilized with locking plates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Locked bridge plating relies on secondary bone healing, which requires interfragmentary motion for callus formation. This study evaluated healing of fractures stabilized with a locked plating construct and a far cortical locking construct, which is a modified locked plating approach that promotes interfragmentary motion. The study tested whether far cortical locking constructs can improve fracture-healing compared with standard locked plating constructs.

Methods

In an established ovine tibial osteotomy model with a 3-mm gap size, twelve osteotomies were randomly stabilized with locked plating or far cortical locking constructs applied medially. The far cortical locking constructs were designed to provide 84% lower stiffness than the locked plating constructs and p

SUBMITTER: Bottlang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2897208 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature