Surgical treatment of displaced isolated lateral malleolar fractures: incidence of adverse events requiring revision: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent systematic reviews support that non-operative management should be the standard treatment for all stable isolated lateral malleolar fractures (ILMFs), regardless of fibular fracture displacement. Surgical fixation of ILMFs carries a risk of adverse events (AEs), and many patients will later require implant removal. We wanted to estimate the incidence of AEs requiring revision after surgical fixation of "potentially stable" displaced ILMFs before non-operative treatment became standard care in our department.

Materials and methods

To identify patients with "potentially stable" ILMFs who had been treated surgically in a historical cohort, we retrospectively applied the stability-based classification system, introduced by Michelson et al., to a cohort of 1006

SUBMITTER: Frederiksen JO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9066775 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature