Developing Apparatus and Method for Fixation of Comminuted Distal Humerus Fractures
This paper presents a model of fixation of comminuted distal humerus fractures. The advantage of the proposed model of osteosynthesis is the possibility of percutaneous osteosynthesis of pin-fixers, which theoretically reduces the overall injury of intervention in ensuring the stability of fixation of bone fragments, allowing to start motion in the operated elbow joint immediately after surgery. Moreover, the structure of the device makes it possible to put fixing wire perpendicularly to plane of the fracture, i.e. optimally adapts load vector, has a unidirectional compressing effect and is immersed. This model greatly enhances the possibilities of open osteosynthesis in small-fragment and multifragmental fractures of distal metaepiphysis of the humerus.