Prolonged healing of fractures

The term prolonged fracture healing means that the healing time is longer than the expected healing time of the fracture (6-8 weeks).

It's being resolved:

• by prolonging immobilization;
• in fractures conservatively treated by operative osteosynthesis;
• sometimes spongioplasty is also performed.

References

Related articles

• Fracture healing disorders
  • Malunion
  • False joint

Source

• PASTOR, Jan. Langenbeck's medical web page [online]. [cit. 12.4.2010]. <http://langenbeck.webs.com>.