title: [Pseudo-arthroses].
abstract: Pseudo-arthroses are disorders of fracture healing after conservative or operative treatment of fractures which are older than 6 months. Decisive for a targeted therapy is a differentiation between aseptic and septic or atrophic, oligotrophic or hypertrophic pseudo-arthrosis. The operative principals include revitalization of atrophic bone fragments, stabilizing reosteosynthesis for instability and the treatment of infection by transformation of a septic into a stabilized or aseptic pseudo-arthrosis.
authors.affiliation: Spezielle Unfallchirurgie, Abteilung für Unfallchirurgie, Orthopädie und Sporttraumatologie, Berufsgenossenschaftliches Krankenhaus, Bergedorfer Strasse 10, 21033, Hamburg. j.meiners@buk-hamburg.de
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Meiners
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Gerlach
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mägerlein
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jürgens
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Faschingbauer
mesh_terms: D001170:Arthritis, Infectious / Q000503:physiopathology*; D017102:Fracture Healing; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D012008:Recurrence; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy