PLATING OSTEOSYNTHESIS OF HUMERAL SHAFT FRACTURES: ABOUT 03 CASES OF IMPLANTS DAMAGES IN CAMEROON

HANDY EONE Daniel; NGONO Prudence Christelle Danielle; ESSI Marie Josee; MANFO AGOUMWA Alex Giraud; NGO NONGA Bernadette; SOSSO Maurice Aurelien

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

PLATING OSTEOSYNTHESIS OF HUMERAL SHAFT FRACTURES: ABOUT 03 CASES OF IMPLANTS DAMAGES IN CAMEROON

Handy Eone Daniel, Ngono Prudence Christelle Danielle, Essi Marie Josee, Manfo Agoumwa Alex Giraud, Ngo Nonga Bernadette, Sosso Maurice Aurelien

Abstract :

Several varieties of medical implants are available and used by orthopedic surgeons to restore bone anatomy and facilitate the consolidation process of fractured bone. Implant damages are more and more frequent, the etiologies are variable and research work devoted to these damages in the osteosynthesis of the humerus are few. We decided to use three medical observations to highlight the insufficiency factors causing damage of implants in our environment. Over a period of 6 years 4 months in the city of Yaoundé, a retrospective study was carried out and 3 cases of implant damage were recorded. Two men and one woman with an average age of 41.7 years, all right–handed with closed bone lesions without vascular or nerves lesions. Radiologically, these were diaphyseal fractures of AO type A3 type in two cases and B2 type in one case. The first case of damage was secondary to a compression defect during the reduction in a patient operated for a pseudarthrosis of the right humerus with a type A3 medio–diaphyseal line. The second case occurred following early loading in a patient with a closed fracture of the right humerus. In the third case, this was an inappropriate mounting in a patient with a closed fracture of the right humerus.