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Tibia osteotomies in sheep were stabilized in nail-fixed and wire-fixed external devices with static longitudinal compression. During the 8-week study programme the mechanical situation of the osteotomies was checked via continuous measurements of interfragmentary tension, used as a functional indicator of stabilization. Simultaneously the test animals were marked by polychromatic fluorescent pigments. The histological findings made at the site of osteotomies showed that the temporal and local progress of ossification was influenced by the degree of stability of osteosynthesis. Under stable osteosynthesis conditions primary bone healing occurred analogous to findings in flattened experimental shaft fractures. On grounds of varying stability performance of external pressure osteosynthesis differences in secondary healing of osteotomies were observed due to interfragmentary instability.
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
November 1968,
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
January 1985,
Engineering in medicine,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
May 1974,
Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960),
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
January 1979,
Hefte zur Unfallheilkunde,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
January 1979,
Acta chirurgica Iugoslavica,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
November 1979,
Die Medizinische Welt,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
June 2007,
Acta orthopaedica. Supplementum,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
April 1989,
Clinical orthopaedics and related research,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
August 2003,
Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica,
G Mayer, and
E Wolf
August 1982,
Stomatologie der DDR,
