Abstract
Fixing a fracture is an important step in treating and achieving fracture union. Every fixed fractured needs to be followed up regularly and longitudinally until fracture consolidation is seen and the clinical pre-injury status of the patient is attained. However, sometimes this gradual return to normalcy does not proceed according to plan. The experienced surgeon can predict that the implant and fixation is about to fail. This prediction can in turn allow the surgeon to be well prepared with a sound plan even before attempting the index surgery or foresee the outcome of an already performed surgery and plan a treatment regimen to prevent implant from failing. This chapter discusses these predictors of failure with actual radiological examples as well as some of the remedies employed to deal with them.
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Rana, N., Das De, S. (2023). Trying to Predict Implant Failure in Orthopaedic Traumatology. In: Banerjee, A., Biberthaler, P., Shanmugasundaram, S. (eds) Handbook of Orthopaedic Trauma Implantology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7540-0_4
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