Treatment of severe osteitis after elastic intramedullary nailing of a radial bone shaft fracture by using cancellous bone graft in Masquelet technique in a 13-year-old adolescent girl

J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Aug;44(8):E17-9. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.04.039.

Abstract

We present here an unfortunate long-lasting case of sever osteitis after elastic intramedullary nailing of a radial bone shaft fracture in a 13-year-old adolescent girl and the final treatment by using a modified Masquelet technique (Palacos spacer and cancellous bone graft in a second session in addition to a plate osteosynthesis) to reconstruct the severely destroyed proximal radial bone.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Bone Nails*
  • Bone Plates*
  • Bone Transplantation*
  • Female
  • Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary*
  • Humans
  • Osteitis / etiology
  • Osteitis / surgery*
  • Postoperative Complications / etiology
  • Postoperative Complications / surgery*
  • Radius / pathology*
  • Radius Fractures / surgery*