Background: Open fractures of the tibia usually indicate a high-energy injury to soft tissue
and bone with resultant difficulties of infection and poor bone healing. Material & Methods …

Introduction: Open fractures of the tibia are among the most common of serious skeletal
injuries, can cause permanent sequelae if not managed timely and precisely. Material and …

Materials and Methods: A total of 30 patients diagnosed with open tibial diaphyseal
fractures, who underwent primary debridement and fixation with intramedullary interlocking …

Background: Treatment of open tibia fracture is controversial. Complications such as
infection, re-operation, nonunion and poor consolidation are also relatively common after …

Abstract SERON, S and RASOOL, MN. Outcomes of intramedullary nailing for open fractures
of the tibial shaft. SA orthop. j.[online]. 2018, vol. 17, n. 1, pp. 24-29. ISSN 2309-8309 …

Introduction Treatment of open tibial shaft fracture is controversial due to the risk of infection.
We assessed results in a continuous series of open tibial shaft fractures treated by primary …

Methods Thirty patients who had 30 open fractures of the tibial shaft were treated with
wound debridement and primary interlocking intramedullary nailing with reaming during the …

Background: The effectiveness of primary intramedullary nailing in open diaphyseal
fractures in tibia is still controversial and the available literature is unclear. We conducted a …

Objectives: In a developing country such as ours, patients with Type III open Tibial fractures
often reach the hospital late (after initial 6 hours) of sustaining high-velocity trauma. Primary …

Most common long-bone fracture is tibial shaft fracture encountered by most of the
orthopaedic surgeons. Intramedullary nailing has become the treatment of choice for …