Factors Associated with Increased Healing Time in Complete Femoral Fractures After Long-Term Bisphosphonate Therapy

Conclusions:
Intramedullary nailing without cortical breakage around the fracture site and decreasing the anterior and lateral fracture gaps (avoidance of distraction) as much as possible are recommended to reduce healing time in complete femoral fractures associated with long-term use of bisphosphonates.

Level of Evidence:
Therapeutic Level IV. See Instructions for Authors for a complete description of levels of evidence.

Source: JBJS - December 6, 2016 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Lim, H.-S., Kim, C.-K., Park, Y.-S., Moon, Y.-W., Lim, S.-J., Kim, S.-M. Tags: Hip, Trauma Scientific Articles Source Type: research