Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Bioresorbable screws for surgical fracture treatment are of great interest for the orthopaedic community. Such implants are designed to provide stability and compression of the fracture and should dissolve after healing, thereby making removal of surgical material obsolete. Magnesium implants are a new material option. So far, long-term follow-up of fracture healing and material decay has not been studied in human. Here, we present the results of the 2.5 year follo...

Background: Bioresorbable implants should provide stability for fracture healing and resorb thereafter to make implant removal obsolete. Here, we report follow-up data of 6 patients treated with bioresorbable magnesium screws following medial malleolus fractures.Purpose: Assessment of the implantation site and implant resorption of 11 implants in 6 patients with HR-pQCT (high resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography)....