INCIDENCE OF SHORTENING IN PATIENTS WITH DISTAL RADIAL FRACTURES TREATED WITH EXTERNAL FIXATOR

Autor:	Manjuri Kataki, Ujjawal Pradhan, Sanjoy Chakravarty
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty External fixator business.industry lcsh:R5-130.5 Incidence (epidemiology) Distal Radius Fracture External Fixator Surgery Radial fractures S hortening L igamentotaxis medicine In patient business lcsh:General works
Zdroj:	Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare, Vol 2, Iss 41, Pp 6961-6966 (2015)
ISSN:	2349-2570 2349-2562
Popis:	Distal Radial fractures are a very common fracture especially in patients above 40 years of age. Most fractures result in shortening of more than 4 to 5 mm of the radius. The study was done on records of 32 patients attending a tertiary and teaching hospital in Sikkim. The study is a retrospective one. This study was taken up to study the shortening that results in cases where external fixator was used as a mode of treatment combined with ligamentotaxis . A bridging external fixator was used was used in all cases. The results were recorded in the immediate postoperative x - ray film. Results were also recorded in follow up x - rays taken after 6 weeks of removal of external fixator
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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