ArticleJournal of medical case reports2012
Successful treatment of nonunion in severe finger injury with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS): a case report.
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- Low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) use for the management of instrumented, infected, and fragility non-unions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of healing proportions.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Pooled it
- The Effects and Mechanisms of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on Bone Remodeling: From Laboratory to Clinic.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Comparison of Treatment Results for Mallet Finger Fractures in Children Between Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound Stimulation and Ishiguro's Method.Hand (New York, N.Y.) · 2018Article
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Abstract
introductionSevere injuries of the hand or single fingers require immediate treatment but surgical fixation methods are limited depending on soft tissue damage. Thus, it is very common that severe soft tissue damage along with poor osteosynthetic bone fixation results in a delayed healing process or nonunion. Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) has been proven to stimulate bone formation in in vitro studies and also to significantly accelerate nonunion healing in animal studies and clinical trials but to date there are no data with respect to nonunion in phalanx fracture. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case in which we successfully used LIPUS in a 19-year-old Caucasian man with a nonunion of his ring finger after injury and first treatment with K-wire osteosynthesis.
conclusionWe recommend that LIPUS be considered as an option to treat nonunions in fractures of the hand, especially because it is a soft tissue conserving method with a good functional result.
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