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CONSOLIDATION OF FRACTURES IN MEDICAL EXPERT PRACTICE

Jonas Aparecido Borracini, Viviam Paula Lucianelli Spina, Lucas Pedroso Fernandes Leal, Elcio Rodrigues da Silva, Fabio Tadeu Panza

In this study, the authors have carried out a literature survey on the subject of bone fracture to introduce non-expert in Orthopedics to these concepts. We discuss the types of bone healing, which may be primary or secondary, methods of fracture stabilization- relative or absolute-, factors that interfere in bone consolidation and one of the main complications, pseudoarthrosis. The goal of this study is to enable experts to identify the moment of consolidation of the fracture or the absence of it, in order to better assist justice within its expert practice.