The use of osteotaxis as a limb salvage procedure in severe compound injuries of the upper extremity.
Osteotaxis has been proven to offer a means for limb stabilization even in the most severe cases of upper extremity injuries, especially in cases where extensive soft tissue injuries contraindícate internal fixation or plaster cast treatment. Our policy has been to use the osteotaxis treatment only in these severe cases; we do not consider the frame to be a competing procedure with other commonly practiced modes of injury treatment. Our recent experience using the frame to salvage the function of traumatized upper extremities involves ten patients. In some of the cases there were additional carpal or cubital luxations, as well as carpal fractures. Average time in frame was eight weeks. It seems that osteotaxis offers a good means for limb function salvage in compound injuries of the upper extremity with a possibility for satisfactory result.
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