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Abstract
Twenty consecutive patients with displaced fractures of the olecranon were operated on using the tension-band wiring technique with a nonsliding pin. The patients were followed until clinical and radiographic healing or removal of the implant. Healing was uneventful in 19 patients after a median of 6 weeks. Redislocation occurred in 1 patient with a severely comminuted fracture. The design of the nonsliding pin eliminates outward pin migration, as well as migration into the medullary canal.Entities:
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Year: 1991 PMID: 1882677 DOI: 10.3109/17453679108994470
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Orthop Scand ISSN: 0001-6470