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Review of the Operative Treatment of Achilles Tendon Rupture
- Source :
- Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 201:80
- Publication Year :
- 1985
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1985.
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Abstract
- Sixty-eight patients' charts were reviewed for ascertainment of the complication rate following operative repair of ruptured Achilles tendons. Ninety-two percent of 48 patients whose cases underwent clinical evaluation returned to their preinjury activity status: 13% had incisional complications, most of which resolved. The rerupture rate was 3% (2/68). The results of this series and a literature review show that operative treatment can be regarded as an acceptable method. Nonoperative treatment should be considered in a nonathletic patient over the age of 50 years because of potentially serious problems with wound healing.
Details
- ISSN :
- 0009921X
- Volume :
- 201
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........df93fab92c81149dcb9100e870ec57a6