Is a fractured mandible an emergency?
| Autor: | S. Parmar, M McPhillips, Douglas Hammond, Justin Whitty, Richard Wain |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Adolescent education 030230 surgery Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Mandibular Fractures Humans Medicine Aged Retrospective Studies Chi-Square Distribution business.industry Middle Aged Surgery Oral United Kingdom humanities Surgery Otorhinolaryngology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Fractured mandible Female Emergencies Morbidity Oral Surgery business |
| Zdroj: | British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 56:39-42 |
| ISSN: | 0266-4356 |
| Popis: | We retrospectively audited the records of 708 patients who presented with the diagnosis of fractured mandible between January 2009 and July 2013 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. We assessed the different factors that may have altered their outcomes, and found that delay before definitive fixation caused no harm in either the short or the long term. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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