@article{article_190221, title={Unreamed intramedullary nailing in tibial shaft fractures}, journal={Acta Orthopaedica et Traumatologica Turcica}, volume={32}, pages={127–133}, year={2006}, DOI={10.3944/aott.v32i2.4299}, author={Ozturk, Hasan and Us, M. and Kaya, Ahmet and Onal, Cagatay and Altay, Taskin}, abstract={63 patients who were diagnosed as tibial shaft fractures have been treated by intramedullary nailing in the years between March 1993 and May 1997 at our clinic. The mean follow-up period for these patients was 16, 7 months. The mean age of the patients was 33, 9 years. The aetiologic factor was motor vehicle accidents in 55 cases (87, 30%). The others were industrial accidents in 6 cases (9,5%), falling in 2 cases (3,1%), and stroke injuries in 1 case (1, 5%). 32 (50,79 %) of them were closed fractures and 31 (49,21 %) were open. According to Gustilo Anderson classification systems the distributions of open fractures were as follows : Type 1: 11, Type 2: 13, Type 3: 7. Closed nailing was applied to 52 patients (82,53 %), while open nailing was applied to 11 patients (17,47%) for various reasons. Conventional nails were applied to 53 cases while interlocking nails were used in 10 cases (4 of them were static and 6 of them were dynamic). Clinical recovery occurred in 14, 0 weeks, on the otherhand radiological recovery in 17,0 weeks. Only in 2 patients there was shortening over 10 mm. In 2 cases angulation at mediolateral plane was over 5 mm, whereas in 1 patient angulation at anteroposterior plane was over 5mm. In 2 cases delayed union was seen. Rotational deformity , neurologic or vascular complication , nonunion and osteomyelitis have not been observed in any of the cases. According to Johner and Wruhs Evaluation Criteria, We realised that we obtained excellent results in 38 cases (60,31%), good in 18 (28,57%), fair in 7 (11,11%) . We have not observed any poor result. While we obtained 25 excellent (78,13%), 5 good (15,62%), and 2 fair (6, 25%) results in closed fractures, we obtained 15 excellent (48,38 %), 11 good (35,48 %) and 5 fair (16,12 %) results in open fractures.}, number={2}, publisher={Turkish Association of Orthopaedics and Traumatology}