Table 1.
Shaft Fractures
| Fracture Pattern (AO-OTA) Simple: type A1/A2 Complex: type A3/B/C |
Surgical Procedure | Complications | x-ray fracture healing (average) | |
| Gustilo I | Simple: 12 | Nail | -- | 4 months |
| Complex: 6 | Nail | 1 delayed union | (3 to 6) | |
| Gustilo II | Simple: 2 | Nail | -- | 4 months |
| Complex: 22 | Nail (12); Ex fix (10)> Nail within 15 days |
1 infectednounion (Ex fix) | (3 to 8) | |
| Gustilo IIIA | Simple -- | -- | -- | 5 months |
| Complex: 11 | Nail (4); Ex fix (7)> Nail within 15 days |
1 delayed union (nail) 2 deep infection (Ex fix) |
(4 to 8) | |
| Gustilo IIIB | Simple: -- | -- | -- | |
| Complex : 1 | Nail + dermo-epidermalgraft | Partialgraftnecrosis | 6 months | |
| Gustilo IIIC | Simple -- | -- | 10 months | |
| Complex: 4 | Ex fix | Multiple surgeries (massive bone defect) | (5 mo to 2 y) |