What is Too Swollen? Correlation of Soft Tissue Swelling and Timing to Surgery with Acute Wound Complications for Operatively-Treated Lower Extremity Fractures

CATEGORY: Trauma, Soft Tissue INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE: Considerable debate exists regarding how soft-tissue edema should influence timing of surgery for lower extremity fractures. Assessment of swelling is subjective and timing varies amongst surgeons. However, timing of surgery is one of the few modif...

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Autores principales: Riedel, Matthew D., Parker, Amber, Zheng, Mingxin, Briceno, Jorge, Staffa, Steven J., Miller, Christopher P., Kaiser, Philip B., Wu, Jim S., Zurakowski, David, Kwon, John Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8697159/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2473011419S00361

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