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We define a nonunion as any fracture that has failed to unite by six months. A varient of nonunion is pseudoarthrosis, in which there is a true false joint with sealing of the medullary cavity, formation of articular cartilage, and an articular pseudofovea. Pseudarthrosis is illustrated by the nearthrosis that is deliberately created by the functional therapy of a condylar neck fractures or fracture-dislocation of the temporomandibular joint.
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Spiessl, B. (1989). Nonunion. In: Internal Fixation of the Mandible. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71034-6_15
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