Changes in clavicle length in acute fractures within 3 weeks: a prospective ultrasonographic study of 59 patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Within traumatology a common indication for acute surgery of fractured clavicles is bone shortening over 2 cm. This indication is among but a few indications; which are recommended to be treated operatively within the very first weeks after a fracture. Theoretically clavicle fractures could become less shortened over time due to decreasing muscle pull. If this reduced shortening does indeed happen, some patients with initial bone shortening over 2 cm could perhaps be treated conservatively? However, it is unknown what happens to the length of the clavicle within the first weeks after a fracture. The aim of this study was to investigate if the length of the fresh fractured clavicles changes within the first three weeks.

Methods

Rested length measurements using navi

SUBMITTER: Thorsmark AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5706375 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature