Open Tibial Fractures with Associated Vascular Injuries
- 1 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 25 (3) , 203-208
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-198503000-00006
Abstract
Open tibial fractures complicated by limb-threatening vascular injuries present an infrequent but difficult management problem. Twenty-three cases were reviewed with an ultimate amputation rate of 61% (22% primary, 39% delayed). Crush injuries, segmental tibial fractures, and revascularization delays of greater than 6 hours were associated with a bad outcome. Guidelines for primary amputation (crushing injuries, delay in revascularization, segmental tibial fractures) are proposed and implications of limb salvage are reviewed.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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