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The Influence of Obesity on Ankle Fracture Treatment
Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2018 Category: Ankle Introduction/Purpose: Obesity is a public health concern in the United States, with an overall prevalence of greater than one-third. From a surgical perspective, obesity may increase risk for postoperative complications, including delayed
Jeffery Hillam BS +3 more
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Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2018 Ankle fractures are common musculoskeletal injuries that may result in tibiotalar joint dislocations. Ankle fracture-dislocations occur via similar mechanisms as ankle fractures, although the persistence or magnitude of the deforming force is sufficient ...
Kevin A. Lawson MD +4 more
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Is osteoporosis a risk factor for ankle fracture?
Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics, 2017 Category: Ankle, Trauma Introduction/Purpose: It is well known that fracture of the ankle is different from the typical osteoporotic fracture. Nevertheless, there remains controversy over osteoporotic feature of the ankle.
Ji Young Jeon MD
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Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia, 2017 Objectives: There remains controversy over osteoporotic feature of the ankle. Therefore, we investigated the possibility of the existence of a relationship between axial bone mineral density (BMD) in patients with ankle fracture group with that of the ...
Dong-Oh Lee +3 more
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Smoking and trimalleolar fractures are risk factors for infection after open reduction and internal fixation of closed ankle fractures: A multicenter retrospective study of 1,201 fractures [PDF]
, 2021 Introduction: One of the complications of the surgical therapy for ankle fractures includes wound infection. This study aimed to evaluate postoperative function and clarify the risk factors associated with postoperative wound infection in patients ...
Fujita, Tomoki +5 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 BackgroundAvulsion fracture of the anterior tibia with proximal fibular fracture commonly occurs in Maisonneuve fracture, which generally involves ankle instability and requires surgical correction.
Jian Yu +4 more
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Short-Term Outcomes and Influencing Factors After Ankle Fracture Surgery
, 2021 The present study investigated the factors influencing the early clinical outcomes after ankle fracture surgery. We included 88 patients, who had undergone implant removal surgery at 1 year after ankle fracture surgery, with ankle computed tomographic ...
윤여헌, 이승열
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Inference on Injury Mechanism of Ankle Fracture by Lauge-Hansen Classification [PDF]
Fayixue Zazhi, 2018 Objective To explore the injury mechanism of ankle fracture inferred by the Lauge-Hansen classification with the application of medical imageology and its application value in forensic medicine.
HONG Xiang, BAO Chao-sheng, ZHENG Wei-long
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Ankle injury management (AIM) : design of a pragmatic multi-centre equivalence randomised controlled trial comparing close contact casting (CCC) to open surgical reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) in the treatment of unstable ankle fractures in patients over 60 years [PDF]
, 2014 Background: Ankle fractures account for 9% of all fractures with a quarter of these occurring in adults over 60 years. The short term disability and long-term consequences of this injury can be considerable.
David J Keene +39 more
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2023 Purpose Ankle fracture–dislocations are among the most severe injuries, and the use of an external fixator as a recommended fixation method has some disadvantages.
Wenjun Xie +6 more
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