Fractures of the shaft of the tibia are a common injury and they are generally regarded as
predisposed to delayed union and nonunion. While for the fractures of the skeleton as a …

The technique and results of treating 57 selected open tibial shaft fractures by intramedullary
nailing are reviewed. All but three of the the fractures were located in the middle third of the …

1. Fifty tibial fractures treated by intramedullary nailing during seven years have been
presented. There were twenty-eight closed and twenty-two open fractures. 2. The use of the …

A total of 98 tibial shaft fractures were internally fixed by closed intramedullary nailing.
Twenty-seven of the fractures were open and 71 were closed. In 62 patients (67 per cent) …

Intramedullary nailing was introduced by Künt-scher in 1940 for the treatment of closed trans-
verse or slightly oblique factures involving the midshaft of long bones (9). In 1950, the …

Thirty-eight consecutive segmental fractures of the tibia were treated by intramedullary
nailing with the Küntscher-Herzog nail. Twenty-two fractures were closed and sixteen were …

Management of the fractures of the shaft of the tibia remained a controversial subject despite
advances in both non-operative and operative care. Sir John Charnley stated that,“we have …

(Kiintscher 1940). The method was widely adopted for a variety of orthopaedic conditions,
but in the treatment of tibial shaft fractures the stability achieved with the original medullary …

The concept of intramedullary nailing of fractures of the tibia with a Lottes nail and the details
of the technic by which it generally is used in greater St. Louis have been reviewed. In …

Intramedullary nailing of fractures of the tibial shaft, usually by employment of a rigid nail,
has been shown to be an effective procedure, particularly in simple transverse and oblique …