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 …

Purpose: Controversies exist between primary nailing and external fixator application as
treatment of choice for severely open fractures. This study was conducted to assess the …

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 …

AIM: To establish superficial and deep infection rates and time to union of open tibial shaft
fractures treated with primary debridement and locked intramedullary nails. MATERIALS …

Background: The results of closed intramedullary nailing technique are excellent for treating
fractures of the tibial shaft. Court Brown reported that the time to union and infection rates …

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 …

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 …