The experience in treatment of 369 patients with stumps, shortenings and defects of finger phalanges and metacarpal bones is presented. Distraction method alone and distraction with combination of bone autoplasty were used. Thirty patients (8,1%) with amputated stumps, 77 patients (20,9%) with ununited and 93 patients (25,2%) with malunited fractures were treated using distraction only. In 42 patients (11,4%) with amputation stumps, 29 patients (7,9%) with pseudoarthroses, 31 patients (8,4%) with ununited, 28 patients (7,6%) with malunited fractures and in 39 patients (10,6%) with the defects of articular ends and metacarpal bones the distraction in combination with bone autoplasty was performed. Long term results were evaluated in 281 patients (76,1%). Good results were achieved in 163 patients (58%), satisfactory - in 111 (39,5%) and unsatisfactory - in 7 patients (2,5%).
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.