Treatment of XXXX with pins and thigh plaster.

@entity1 @entity174 @entity173 @entity281 @entity130
Thirty @entity1 with proximal third femur @entity174 were treated with pins-in-thigh plaster. @entity1 were divided into two groups: (1) acute (pins-in-plaster applied within one month after injury); and (2) late (pins-in-plaster applied later than one month @entity130 ). @entity1 in the acute group had application of pins-in-plaster inserted at an average of nine days after injury, and were treated in plaster for 9.4 weeks with union occurring at 10.7 weeks. @entity1 in the late group had application of pins-in-plaster an average of 13.3 weeks after injury, treatment in plaster for 7.7 weeks, and union at 21 weeks. @entity173 healed as rapidly as other areas of the femur when braced early. Twenty-five @entity174 demonstrated less than 2 cm of shortening and less than 10 degrees of varus. There were no nonunions. One @entity1 developed a deep wound @entity281 . Antibiotics were required in seven @entity1 because of pin tract drainage, which ceased once the pins were removed. This method is indicated in active @entity1 with comminuted or open @entity174 but neither in the elderly or senile @entity1 , or in intertrochanteric-subtrochanteric @entity174 .
