pseudarthrosis , także: pseudoarthrosis

Pseudarthrosis can also result from a developmental failure.

Additionally, the risk of pseudarthrosis (fusion failure) at one or more levels was relatively high, and significant correction could not always be achieved.

Bowing of a long bone with a tendency to fracture and not heal, yielding a pseudarthrosis.

In some cases a pseudo-joint (pseudarthrosis) develops between the two fragments with cartilage formation and a joint cavity.

In 2008 it was approved to repair posterolateral lumbar pseudarthrosis, open tibia shaft fractures with intramedullary nail fixation.

The most common bone to be affected is the tibia, causing congenital pseudarthrosis of the tibia or CPT.

A distinctive osseous lesion such as kyphoscoliosis, sphenoid dysplasia, or thinning of the long bone cortex with or without pseudarthrosis.

Ilizarov distracted the stiff non-union in his tibia by 2 cm, healing the pseudarthrosis, corrected an equinus deformity by distraction and lengthened his leg.

Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMFT), also called pulsed magnetic therapy, pulse magnetotherapy, or PEMF, is a reparative technique most commonly used in the field of orthopedics for the treatment of non-union fractures, failed fusions, congenital pseudarthrosis and depression.