@misc{Bołtuć_Witold_The_2007, author={Bołtuć, Witold}, address={Kraków}, howpublished={online}, year={2007}, school={Wydział Lekarski}, language={pol}, abstract={The paper presents the results of treatment of tibial shaft fracture rozprawy related to the method of intramedullary union with or without reaming of the medullary cavity. The clinical material was obtained from the traumatic-orthopaedic surgery department and rehabilitation department of the County Hospital in Dabrowa Tarnowska. A group of 128 patients treated with intramedullary blocking stabilization was evaluated. The patients were divided into two groups depending on the surgical technique used. The first group included 64 patients operated without reaming of the medullary cavity. In the second group, comprising also 64 patients, the surgery was preceded by reaming of the medullary cavity. The clinical, radiological and functional indicators were assessed. The results of the study showed that the method of surgical union of tibial shaft fracture with the reaming of the medullary cavity was more favourable with regard to the assessed clinical and radiological parameters, complications concerning synostosis, infections and deviations of the long axis. The functional results were dependent, to a large degree, on the patients' age, and to some degree on the adopted operational technique.}, title={The results of the treatment of tibial shaft fractures in relation to the metod of intramedullary nailing}, type={Praca doktorska}, keywords={intramedullary nailing, tibial fractures}, }