TREATMENT OF ARTICULAR CALCANEAN FRACTURES - EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Abstract:
Calcanean fractures have important morbidity and their treatment involves high socioeconomic
costs. There are still many issues regarding the treatment of these fractures: indication for
surgery, timing, type of fixation etc. There is no definitive indication for surgical or orthopaedic
treatment. Even if the surgical treatment seems to offer many advantages related to quality of reduction,
duration of treatment, there are no clear data in literature regarding the functional outcome, incidence
of early and late complications. This is a retrospective observational cohort study including 168
consecutive patients with the diagnosis of calcanean fracture treated between 2010 and 2015. The
purpose of this study is to find correlations between age, gender, comorbidities, complications, duration
of hospitalization, treatment. We find significant differences in male patients over 50 years vs. under 50,
regarding the presence of early complications. Patients with surgical treatment stay statistically
significantly longer in hospital than patients with orthopaedic treatment.
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