{"title":"Surgical treatment of post-radiotherapy nonunions of the clavicle.","authors":"Glenn Wera, David Glenn Mohler, Loretta Chou","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fractures of irradiated bones present special challenges to healing. Nonunions are very common and are challenging surgical problems. We report three radiated nonunions of the clavicle successfully treated with modifications of standard internal fixation techniques.</p>","PeriodicalId":77050,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin (Hospital for Joint Diseases (New York, N.Y.))","volume":"62 3-4","pages":"125-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin (Hospital for Joint Diseases (New York, N.Y.))","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Fractures of irradiated bones present special challenges to healing. Nonunions are very common and are challenging surgical problems. We report three radiated nonunions of the clavicle successfully treated with modifications of standard internal fixation techniques.