Vasenius J, Laitinen O, Pohjonen T, Vainionpää S, Törmälä P, Rokkanen P
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland.
Int Orthop. 1993;17(3):144-7. doi: 10.1007/BF00186374.
In an experimental study in nine sheep, self-reinforced poly-L-lactic pins were used to fix subcapital femoral osteotomies. One out of three was consolidated at 3 weeks. At 6 weeks, one out of 3 had failed, and the other two were united by bone. At 12 weeks all the osteotomies had healed. These results showed that absorbable SR-PLLA pins could be used to fix this type of osteotomy.