Perioperative adverse events in distal femur fractures treated with intramedullary nail versus plate and screw fixation.
retrospective_cohort · Level III
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 27047223.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.jor.2015.10.009 and PMC identifier 4796573.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
To compare 30-day outcomes in patients treated for a distal femur (DF) fracture with plate fixation (PF) or intramedullary nail (IMN). Differences in rates of any adverse events (AAE), serious adverse events (SAE), infectious complications, and mortality were explored between groups in the ACS-NSQIP database. There were 511 PF and 44 IMN patients. The PF group and IMN groups had similar rates of AAEs (p = 0.35), SAEs (p = 0.46), infectious complications (p = 1.00), and mortality (p = 0.39). DF fractures treated with IMN have equivalent short-term outcomes compared to those treated with PF.
Anatomy
- femur