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Ipsilateral femur and tibia fractures in pediatric patients: A systematic review

AIM: To better understand how pediatric floating knee injuries are managed after the wide spread use of new orthopaedic technology. METHODS: We searched EMBASE, COCHRANE and MEDLINE computerized literature databases from the earliest date available in the databases to February 2017 using the followi...

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Autores principales: Anari, Jason B, Neuwirth, Alexander L, Horn, B David, Baldwin, Keith D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5565496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28875130
http://dx.doi.org/10.5312/wjo.v8.i8.638
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Sumario:AIM: To better understand how pediatric floating knee injuries are managed after the wide spread use of new orthopaedic technology. METHODS: We searched EMBASE, COCHRANE and MEDLINE computerized literature databases from the earliest date available in the databases to February 2017 using the following search term including variants and pleural counterparts: Pediatric floating knee. All studies were thoroughly reviewed by multiple authors. Reference lists from all articles were scrutinized to identify any additional studies of interest. A final database of individual patients was assembled from the literature. Univariate and multivariate statistical tests were applied to the assembled database to assess differences in outcomes. RESULTS: The English language literature contains series with a total of 97 pediatric patients who sustained floating knee injuries. Patients averaged 9.3 years of age and were mostly male (73). Approximately 25% of the fractures were open injuries, more tibia (27) than femur (10). Over 75% of the fractures of both the tibia and the femur involved the diaphysis. More than half (52) of the patients were treated non-operatively for both fractures. As a sequela of the injury 32 (33%) patients were left with a limb length discrepancy, 24 (25%) patients had lengthening of the injured limb at follow up, while 8 (8%) had shortening of the affected limb. Infection developed in 9 patients and 3 had premature physeal closure. Younger patients were more likely to be treated non-operatively (P < 0.001) and patients treated with operative intervention had statistically significant shorter hospital length of stays (P = 0.001). CONCLUSION: Given the predominance of non-operative management in published studies, the available literature is not clinically relevant since the popularization of internal fixation for pediatric long-bone fractures