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To assess the clinical outcomes, healing times, and complication rates of external fixation in children with femoral fractures.

May 1, 1997Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

External Fixation of Pediatric Femur Fractures

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RBR. Dale BlasierArkansas Children's Hospital JAJames AronsonArkansas Children's Hospital ETElizabeth A. TurskyArkansas Children's Hospital

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Cohort study demonstrates high union rates and minimal complications with external fixation in pediatric femur fractures, indicating reliable clinical success.

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To assess the clinical outcomes, healing times, and complication rates of external fixation in children with femoral fractures.
Reviewed 132 pediatric patients (mean age 8.97 years) with 139 femur fractures treated using external fixation between 1984 and 1993.
Followed all fractures to union, evaluating alignment and radiographic leg-length discrepancy at a two-year follow-up in 18 patients.
All fractures achieved union after an average external fixation time of 11.4 weeks, with zero nonunions.
Pin-tract infections requiring intravenous antibiotics developed in 4.5% (6/132) of patients, with zero instances of osteomyelitis.
Complications included delayed healing at elective removal in 1.4% (2/139), refracture in 1.4% (2/139), and fracture through a pin tract in 0.7% (1/139), with no patient requiring treatment for leg-length discrepancy.

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Blasier et al. (1997) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9377c223705e96f83239ea https://doi.org/10.1097/01241398-199705000-00014

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Cohort study demonstrates high union rates and minimal complications with external fixation in pediatric femur fractures, indicating reliable clinical success.

External Fixation of Pediatric Femur Fractures

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External Fixation of Pediatric Femur Fractures

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