[Use of an external fixator in open tibial shaft fractures as definitive treatment].

Background: We conducted a study evaluating the clinical and radiologic results of the open tibial shaft fractures using an external fixator as definitive treatment.

Methods: Clinical, observational, descriptive, prospective and longitudinal study. Forty-six patients were included, 40 males (87%) and 6 females (13%), whose age was 31.