Surgical technique for minimally invasive fibula fracture fixation.
Foot Ankle Surg
; 17(3): 119-23, 2011 Sep.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-21783069
ABSTRACT
This paper describes a minimally invasive percutaneous technique for reduction and fixation of distal fibula fractures using plate osteosynthesis. We believe this technique benefits patients with poor quality soft tissue envelopes. So far a total of 25 patients have undergone percutaneous fixation, 22 females and 3 males. At no stage yet has a minimally invasive procedure been abandoned intra-operatively in favour of conversion to an open procedure. The mean age was 61.6 years (range 25-80 years). The mean time to surgery was 2.00 days (range 0-5) and mean time to discharge was 4.20 days (range 1-9). At a minimum of over 1 year's follow-up all fractures have healed, with no delayed unions or complications so far experienced.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Fractures, Bone
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Fibula
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Fracture Fixation
Type of study:
Observational_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Foot Ankle Surg
Journal subject:
ORTOPEDIA
Year:
2011
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom