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Treatment of diaphyseal clavicular nonunion with special emphasis on microsurgery.

Injury 2020 March 10
Diaphyseal fractures of the clavicle had until recently the reputation to always heal with abundant callus formation, except if operated, due to a reported high rate of nonunion after plate fixation by older series. The reason would be that the bone has only periosteal vascularization, easily destroyed by periosteal stripping for implant apposition. Bone autograft and external fixation has been reported as the best technique to heal a nonunited clavicle nonunion. Are these classical considerations still valid nowadays? The purposes of this article focusing only on diaphyseal clavicular fractures are to review the vascularization of the bone, the rate of nonunion after nonoperative treatment, the indications and techniques of osteosynthesis, and the treatment possibilities of an established nonunion. This article will not deal with the specific problems of the lateral clavicular fractures, which are equivalent to acromio-clavicular fracture-dislocations, nor of medial fractures, close to the sterno-clavicular joint.

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