ReviewCurrent reviews in musculoskeletal medicine2019
Adolescent Clavicle Fractures: Is There a Role for Open Reduction and Internal Fixation.
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- Continuing Trend of Increased Operative Treatment of Clavicle Fractures in Pediatric Patients in the United States Despite a Lack of Supporting Evidence in the Literature.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- [Treatment of clavicle fractures in children and adolescents : Conservative and surgical treatment options with a focus on the figure-of-eight style brace and intrafocal intramedullary nail osteosynthesis].Operative Orthopadie und Traumatologie · 2025Article
- [Clavicle shaft fractures in childhood and adolescence : Consensus report of the Pediatric Traumatology Section of the German Society for Trauma Surgery].Unfallchirurgie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023Article
- Trends in the Treatment of Adolescent Clavicle Fractures: Are We Listening to the Evidence?Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2023Article
- Rates of Operative Management of Midshaft Clavicle Fracture in Adolescents Have Increased in Florida between 2005 and 2014.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2022Article
- Investigation of the Clinical Effect of New Shoulder Joint Abduction Frame in Humeral Fracture Patients after Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Article
- Rates of readmission and reoperation after operative management of midshaft clavicle fractures in adolescents.World journal of orthopedics · 2021Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewOver the past ten years, there has been a change in the management of adolescent clavicle fractures. Utilizing data from the adult population, clinicians have become more aggressive in terms of surgical fixation. The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the recent literature in regard to adolescent clavicle fractures, and to determine the role of open reduction and internal fixation. RECENT
findingsAlthough there have been many case series that demonstrate that open reduction and internal fixation can be done safely and with predictable healing, studies which compare operative versus non-operative intervention suggest there may not be functional outcome differences between the two treatment options. Further study is necessary to determine the specific indications for fixation of clavicle fractures in the adolescent population. Shared decision-making between patient, family, and clinicians is essential to determine the specific fracture patterns and patients who might benefit from fixation to improve functional outcome.
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