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Changing Fracture Geometry and Its Impact on Orthopaedic Trauma Implantology

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As the years go by, trauma became from a smaller-scale, and therefore, simple and linear fracture pattern to a more energy-consuming and energy-dispersing fracture.

Lately, in high-energy trauma, we can expect higher challenges in treating aggressive wedges, comminution, and bone loss.

Before, conservative treatment with casts and splints was a more effective and more recommended treatment.

Nowadays, it is expected that plating, nailing, and external fixation of such fractures, in association with the use of bone substitutes, be in the scope of knowledge of the general orthopaedic surgeon.

This chapter discusses fractures, correlations between fractures and high-energy dissipation, and the effects on newer implants, e.g., correlations between fracture patterns and motor vehicle accidents, sports participation, and wartime and peacetime firearms limb injuries.

Furthermore, the chapter covers the increasingly elder population and the effects of poorer bone density and relations with fracture patterns and fixation.

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  1. Orthopaedic Surgeon from Sports and Traumatology Division from Orthopedic and Traumatology Department of Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Diego Costa Astur & Davi Casadio

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  1. NH Narayana Superspeciality and Multispeciality Hospitals, Howrah, West Bengal, India

    Arindam Banerjee

  2. Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Peter Biberthaler

  3. Sri Lakshmi Narayana Institute of Medical Sciences, Puducherry, India

    Saseendar Shanmugasundaram

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  1. Orthopaedic Surgery, NH Narayana Superspeciality and Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

    Arindam Banerjee

  2. International Training Fellow(Hip & Knee)-Dept of Trauma & Orthopaedics, Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, West Midlands, England

    Debabrata Kumar

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Astur, D.C., Casadio, D. (2023). Changing Fracture Geometry and Its Impact on Orthopaedic Trauma Implantology. 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_55

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