| Segmental transports for posttraumatic lower extremity bone defects: are femoral bone transports safer than tibial? | |
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PMID: 20532899 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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BACKGROUND: The long-term outcomes following femoral and tibial segment transports are not well documented. Purpose of the study is to compare the complication rates and life quality scores of femoral and tibial transports in order to find what are the complication rates of femoral and tibial monorail bone transports and if they are different? METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 8 femoral and 14 tibial consecutive segment transports performed with the monorail technique between 2001 and 2008 in our institution. Mean follow-up was 5.1 ± 2.1 years with a minimum follow-up of 2 years. Aetiology of the defects was posttraumatic in all cases. Four femoral (50%) and nine tibial (64%) fractures were open. The Short Form-36 (SF-36) health survey was used to compare the life quality after femoral and tibial bone transports. The Mann-Whiney U test, Fisher exact test, and the Student's two tailed t-test were used for statistical analysis. P ≤ 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant. RESULTS: The tibial transport was associated with higher rates of severe complications and additional procedures (1.5 ± 0.9 vs. 3.4 ± 2.7, p = 0.048). Three patients of the tibial group were amputated because of recurrent infections and one developed a complete regenerate insufficiency that was treated with partial diaphyseal tibial replacement. Contrary to that none of patients of the femoral group developed a complete regenerate insufficiency or was amputated. CONCLUSIONS: Tibial bone transports have a higher rate of complete and incomplete regenerate insufficiency and can more often end in an amputation. The authors suggest systematic weekly controls of the CRP value and of the callus formation in patients with posttraumatic tibia bone transports. Further comparative studies comparing the results of bone transports with and without intramedullary implants are necessary. |
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Emmanouil Liodakis; Mohamed Kenawey; Christian Krettek; Max Ettinger; Michael Jagodzinski; Stefan Hankemeier |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-06-09 |
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Title: Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery Volume: 131 ISSN: 1434-3916 ISO Abbreviation: Arch Orthop Trauma Surg Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-02-07 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9011043 Medline TA: Arch Orthop Trauma Surg Country: Germany |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 229-34 Citation Subset: IM |
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Trauma Department, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany, manoliodakis@yahoo.gr. |
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