Observational studyAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England2019
Trends in paediatric distal radius fractures: an eight-year review from a large UK trauma unit.
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- The incidence of fractures in children under two years of age: a systematic review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Pooled it
- Changing trends in the management of pediatric distal forearm fractures: a descriptive Danish 20-year nationwide registry study of 175,083 cases.Acta orthopaedica · 2026Article
- Pediatric fractures in northern China: hospital-based epidemiology and high-risk factors from a regional cohort study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
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- Post-operative imaging in pediatric distal radius fractures: When tradition meets evidence.World journal of orthopedics · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the First Metacarpal Bone Head and Distal Radius Bone Architecture Using Fractal Analysis of Adolescent Hand-Wrist Radiographs.Journal of imaging · 2025Article
- Paediatric distal radius fractures: an instructional review for the FRCS examination.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2023Review
- Clinical Follow-Up without Radiographs Is Sufficient after Most Nonoperatively Treated Distal Radius Fractures in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Children's distal forearm fractures: a population-based epidemiology study of 4,316 fractures.Bone & joint open · 2022Article
- Casting Without Reduction Versus Closed Reduction With or Without Fixation in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures in Children: Protocol for a Randomized Noninferiority Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Trauma in Children during Lockdown for SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic. A Brief Report.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Assessing Compliance to National Guidelines for Pediatric Wrist and Ankle Fractures in a District General Hospital.Cureus · 2021Article
- The incidence of distal radius fractures in a Swedish pediatric population - an observational cohort study of 90 970 individual fractures.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021Observational
- Childhood Distal Forearm Fracture Incidence in Malmö, Sweden 1950 to 2016.Journal of wrist surgery · 2021Article
- Upper Extremity Fractures in Children-Comparison between Worldwide, Romanian and Western Romanian Region Incidence.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionThis observational study investigated the incidence of distal radius fractures in children, to determine whether the rate is rising, the effect of seasonal variation on incidence and whether fracture type and rate of surgical intervention has changed, to help in determining costs for secondary care and to aid resource allocation. MATERIALS AND
methodsAll paediatric patients(n = 6529) who sustained a distal radius fracture over an eight-year period (2007-2014) were identified. Poisson regression modelling was used to identify change in trends.
resultsThere was no change in distal radius fracture incidence, rate of surgical intervention (P = 0.36) or fracture type (P = 0.70). Overall incidence was 337 fractures per 100,000 patient/years. The highest fracture incidence was seen in older school boys (708 per 100,000 patient/years, P < 0.005). Overall fracture rate was lower in winter (P < 0.005). Incidence is highest in summer and the main variation is related to season. DISCUSSION: These data can help to predict accurately the number of children presenting to the emergency department with wrist fractures depending on the time of year.
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