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Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 95-B, Issue SUPP_16 | Pages 37 - 37
1 Apr 2013
Tsuchida Y Isogai S Tsuji H Kurata Y Murakami H Tanabe Y Kudo M Satoh K Inui T Matsui K Hatashita S Matsui H Saitoh J Shitan Y
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Introduction

We investigated the usefulness of flap surgery for Gustilo type IIIB and C severe open fracture of the tibia, for which treatment is difficult.

Materials & Methods

The subjects were 16 patients with severe open fracture of the tibia who received a treatment at our division between April 2000 and October 2008. There were 13 males and 3 females, and the mean age at injury was 41.2 years. Radical debridement and temporal external fixation were performed on the day of injury, and soft tissue reconstruction and definitive osteosynthesis were performed within a few days after injury to the best.


Orthopaedic Proceedings
Vol. 95-B, Issue SUPP_16 | Pages 36 - 36
1 Apr 2013
Matsui K Miyamoto W Tsuchida Y Takao M Matsushita T
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Background

Growing of the geriatric population has brought about increase of lower extremity fractures. The purpose of this study was to investigate the occurrence of surgical site infection after the surgery for lower extremity fractures, except proximal femoral fracture, in over eighty years old patients.

Methods

Patients with closed lower extremity fracture which were treated surgically in 2011 were divided into two groups (Group O; the equal or more than 80 years old, Group Y; from 20 to 65 years old), and the incidence of infection and the outcome after its treatment was compared between Group O and Group Y.