The Marchetti bundle nail for femoral shaft fractures: a review of 56 cases.

The aim of this retrospective study of 56 cases was to determine the risks and the limits of the Marchetti bundle nail in the treatment of femoral shaft fractures. According to the AO classification, 25 fractures were in category A, 20 in category B, 7 in category C and 4 were distal metaphysio-diaphyseal fractures with intercondylar separation classified as 33C2. Intraoperative complications were not directly related to the type of nail.

[Open fractures of the leg - Series from the University Hospital Hautepierre].

Nineteen cases were studied retrospectively between 1982 and 1993. All had been stabilised immediately by external fixators. Free or pedicle flap and early bone graft was carried out as required.

[Use of centromedullar nailing as treatment in open tibial fractures stage IIIb in the tropics].

The authors report a retrospective study of 7 cases over a three-years-period. This study concerns patients treated in a tropical area in which the cutaneous tolerance of an external fixator is bad.Debridement was performed as an emergency without consideration of possible closure of the wounds.

[Type II fractures].

Ninety-seven patients type II were in this study. There were 35 male and 53 female patient, whose average age at revision was 74,5 year old. In this group the average time to fracture after arthroplasty was 6,2 (1-20) years.