title: Complications of Marchetti locked nailing for humeral shaft fractures.
abstract: In this retrospective study 50 humeral fractures (36 acute, 6 pathological fractures and 8 non-unions) were treated by retrograde locked bundled Marchetti nailing. No intraoperative complications occurred. Postoperative complications included 7 non-unions (4/36 acute fractures and 3/8 delayed union), and 2 intraarticular penetrations of the secondary nails. However, at the subsequent removal of the implant 5 supracondylar fractures occurred.
authors.affiliation: Service de Traumatologie, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg, France. Pat.Simon@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jobard
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bistour
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Babin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001858:Bone Nails; D005260:Female; D005594:Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005598:Fractures, Spontaneous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011859:Radiography; D012189:Retrospective Studies