Tags: Disease.
Pseudarthrosis (or nonunions) is a fracture that has not united in the stipulated time in which such fractures usually unite and has no chance of union without intervention.There is movement of a bone at the location of a fracture resulting from inadequate healing of the fracture. U.S. FDA has set a time period of 9 months for fracture union in order to decide when an intervention is required to facilitate union. Pseudarthrosis can also result from a developmental failure.
