Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures

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Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures

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spelling Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures Grecco,Marco Aurélio Sertório Prado Junior,Idyllio do Rocha,Murilo Antonio Barros,José Wagner de Tibial fracture an epidemiological study on tibial fracture tibial shaft fracture In this work an epidemiological analysis on tibial shaft fractures was performed. During four years, our service treated 179 fractures, 132 in male, 47 in female, aged 14 to 83 years. The 21 to 30-year-old patiens were the more injured. Of these, 120 were open and 59 close fractures of which prevailing cause was road traffic accident. The study based on patients promptuaries analyses and radiographs. The fractures occurred 97 times in the middle third (54.18%); 102 times (56.98%) presented simple fragments, and 57 (31.38%) oblique lines. We treated close and open fractures, respectively, 48 and 38 cases with plaster cast immobilization; 3 and 67 with external fixation after plaster cast immobilization; 5 and 12 with osteosynthesis by means of plate and screws, and 2 and 3 with external fixation only. In both close and open fractures, respectively, 7 and 20 cases of pseudarthrosis and 1 and 11 of infections have occurred. With the data obtained we verified an actual validity of the epidemiological studies as a contribution for better identifying lesions features and their treatment and complications. This allows proceedings and apprenticeship refinement. Acta Ortopédica Brasileira 2002-12-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article text/html http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-78522002000400002 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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status publishedVersion
author Grecco,Marco Aurélio Sertório
author-letter Grecco,Marco Aurélio Sertório
title Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures
title_short Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures
title_full Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures
title_fullStr Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures
title_sort Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures

description In this work an epidemiological analysis on tibial shaft fractures was performed. During four years, our service treated 179 fractures, 132 in male, 47 in female, aged 14 to 83 years. The 21 to 30-year-old patiens were the more injured. Of these, 120 were open and 59 close fractures of which prevailing cause was road traffic accident. The study based on patients promptuaries analyses and radiographs. The fractures occurred 97 times in the middle third (54.18%); 102 times (56.98%) presented simple fragments, and 57 (31.38%) oblique lines. We treated close and open fractures, respectively, 48 and 38 cases with plaster cast immobilization; 3 and 67 with external fixation after plaster cast immobilization; 5 and 12 with osteosynthesis by means of plate and screws, and 2 and 3 with external fixation only. In both close and open fractures, respectively, 7 and 20 cases of pseudarthrosis and 1 and 11 of infections have occurred. With the data obtained we verified an actual validity of the epidemiological studies as a contribution for better identifying lesions features and their treatment and complications. This allows proceedings and apprenticeship refinement.
topic Tibial fracture
an epidemiological study on tibial fracture
tibial shaft fracture
spellingShingle Grecco,Marco Aurélio Sertório
Epidemiology of tibial shaft fractures
Tibial fracture
an epidemiological study on tibial fracture
tibial shaft fracture
author2Str Prado Junior,Idyllio do
Rocha,Murilo Antonio
Barros,José Wagner de
author2 Prado Junior,Idyllio do
Rocha,Murilo Antonio
Barros,José Wagner de
format Artículo
language Inglés
url http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-78522002000400002
publishDate 2002
publisher Acta Ortopédica Brasileira