of fifty-two patients with forty-nine severely comminuted fractures of the femoral shaft and three fractures that were complicated by loss of bone , forty-seven patients had uneventful consolidation of the fracture , with a mean time of 4.5 months for the severely comminuted fractures and seven months for the fractures that had a loss of bone .
C0016658
fracture
C0476171
comminuted fractures