Journal
ULTRASONICS
Volume 42, Issue 1-9, Pages 915-917Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2003.11.014
Keywords
exogen; Ilizarov external fixation; open fractures; ultrasound
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The use of low intensity pulsed ultrasound accelerates cortical and cancellous bone fracture healing. Seventeen patients with eighteen high-energy fractures of the long bones were treated with low intensity pulsed ultrasound supplementation to surgical skeletal stabilization and tissue flaps. Sixteen fractures were healed within 13-52 weeks after starting ultrasound supplementation despite severe soft-tissue injuries and varying degrees of tissue loss. This method may be useful in the combined treatment of high-energy limb injuries. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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