The effect of substance abuse and smoking status on healing time of closed transverse femoral shaft fractures treated with open intramedullary nailing
Introduction Nonunion or delayed union is a known postoperative complication in long bone fractures. Substance abuse may impair bone healing. In this paper, we investigated the effect of narcotics on healing time in femoral shaft transverse fractures and the effect of substance abuse and smoking o...
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Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center for Restorative Traumatology and Orthopaedics
2022-06-01
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| Series: | Гений oртопедии |
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