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At a 12-month follow-up no cases of hardware breakage or loss of the surgically achieved fracture reduction were documented.
In our cohort of patients, no cases of hardware breakage, loss of the surgically achieved fracture reduction, or allergy to the plate were documented at a 12-month follow-up.
Features associated with pathology include: radiolucent zones (> 2 mm), periprosthetic fractures, endosteal scalloping, hardware breakage, component wear, heterotopic ossification, subluxation, dislocation, or soft-tissue masses or fluid collections (Roth et al. 2012).
Soft-tissue complications affected 49%% of patients, hardware breakage 33%%, hardware loosening 19%%, non-union 18 % and amputation 21%%.
About one third (31 %) of the patients suffered from hardware breakage and 18%% developed hardware loosening with consecutive non-union.
Catastrophic failure was defined as failure of the construct (e.g. hardware breakage or loosening) or failure of the bone (e.g. fracture of proximal fragments).
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The subsequent radiographs and CT scans were also examined for bone block migration, fracture or lysis, hardware migration, or breakage.
All patients were routinely followed in the outpatient clinic; radiological and clinical examinations (1, 2, 3, 6 months after surgery and then yearly) were conducted and the following noted: time to union, loss of reduction, hardware failure (loosening or breakage) and local or systemic complications.
Consequently, the potential for biologic, long-term fixation through osseointegration is not predictable, and a high incidence of hardware failure due to screw breakage or ischial flange migration has been reported at midterm follow-up [ 42, 47].
Hardware failure can be due to breakage, infection, migration [ 36].
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