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Angle Stable Locking Nails Versus Conventionally Locked Intramedullary Nails in Proximal Tibial Shaft Fractures: a Biomechanical Study by Simon Thelen; Marcel Betsch; Jan-Peter Grassmann; Vera Spoor; Christian Eichler; Jürgen Koebke; Joachim Windolf; Mohssen Hakimi; Michael Wild is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Introduction: A tibial nail with fixed-angle locking screws intends to combine the advantages of angular stability and intramedullary stabilization in extraarticular proximal tibial fractures. the goal of this study is to analyze if the angle stable tibial nail (asn) is biomechanically more stable than an established conventional standard nail (cn). ## Methods: Two types of nails were compared on a series of ten matched pairs of human tibiae. after setting a proximal tibial defect fracture, the intramedullary stabilized tibiae were axially loaded starting from 100 n increasing in steps of 100 n after every 200 cycles until failure was reached. failure was defined as deformation of the fracture gap, fracturing of the bone or the implant. ## Results: The two types of nails showed no significant difference in terms of maximum tolerated load, maximum cycles repeated or axial deformation of the bone-implant construct. the mean load at failure was 1,365 n for the cn and 1,195 n for the asn. the mean axial deformation for conventional (19 mm) and angle stable nail (21 mm) did not differ significantly. slightly less nail or screw loosening was noticed with the fixed-angle nail. ## Concl

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Author

Simon Thelen; Marcel Betsch; Jan-Peter Grassmann; Vera Spoor; Christian Eichler; Jürgen Koebke; Joachim Windolf; Mohssen Hakimi; Michael Wild

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)