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Wounds and Injuries > Fractures, Bone > Fractures, Ununited > Pseudarthrosis

Preferred term

Pseudarthrosis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Pseudoarthroses
  • Pseudoarthrosis

Note

  • a type of ununited fract; do not index under FRACTURES, UNUNITED unless particularly discussed

Scope note

  • A pathologic entity characterized by deossification of a weight-bearing long bone, followed by bending and pathologic fracture, with inability to form normal BONY CALLUS leading to existence of the "false joint" that gives the condition its name. (Dorland, 27th ed)

In other languages

  • valenivel

    Finnish

  • consolidatio absens fracturae
  • murtuman luutumattomuus
  • pseudarthrosis
  • pseudartroosi
  • pseudoarthrosis
  • pseudoartroosi
  • Falsk led

    Swedish

  • Pseudoartros

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011542

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