Clinical biomechanics
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Clinical biomechanics · Jan 2011
Correlations between strength and quantitative computed tomography measurement of callus mineralization in experimental tibial fractures.
the evaluation of fracture healing in the clinic has not changed significantly during the past few decades, despite the development of modern tissue-imaging tools. Recent publications have reported significant and interesting associations between biomechanical properties and quantitative computed tomography data of fractures and grafts. We therefore studied the correlations between the strength and segmented quantitative computed tomography data of tibial diaphyseal fractures. ⋯ quantitative computed tomography was used to quantify characteristic secondary healing. The observed correlations indicate that biomechanically important mineralization can be measured by quantitative computed tomography in the early phase of healing in flexibly fixed fractures.