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Metallic or absorbable implants for ankle fractures: a comparative study of infections in 3,111 cases
- Source :
- Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica. 67(1)
- Publication Year :
- 1996
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Abstract
- Absorbable fracture fixation has been in clinical use since 1984. Our study compares the infection rates and some infection parameters between metallic (2073 patients) and absorbable fracture fixation devices (1012 patients) in displaced ankle fractures. The infection rate associated with metallic fixation was 4.1%, compared with 3.2% absorbable fixation (p 0.3). The patients who had a wound infection were older when metallic fixation was used (p 0.01). They also had a bi- or trimalleolar fracture more often than did patients treated with absorbable fracture fixation, but this difference did not have a significant effect on the wound infection rate (p 0.2). The infections were mostly caused by microorganisms of the Staphylococcus species. Deep infections were equally common with both fixation methods (0.4%), but there was some variation in the bacterial spectrum.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Trimalleolar fracture
Adolescent
Fixation (surgical)
Fracture Fixation, Internal
Fractures, Bone
Postoperative Complications
Fracture fixation
medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Ankle Injuries
Child
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
business.industry
Prostheses and Implants
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Fixation method
Absorbable Implants
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Metals
Orthopedic surgery
Ankle
Complication
business
Polyglycolic Acid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00016470
- Volume :
- 67
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta orthopaedica Scandinavica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6d7b17d73dd6a0aa00d9784a180b1497