ArticleEuropean journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society2021
Same wound complications between extensile lateral approach and sinus tarsi approach for displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures with the same locking compression plates fixation: a 9-year follow-up of 384 patients.
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- Sinus tarsi approach versus the extended lateral approach for displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery · 2021Pooled it
- Extensible lateral approach versus sinus tarsi approach for sanders type II and III calcaneal fractures osteosynthesis: a randomized controlled trial of 186 fractures.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Trial
- Percutaneous fixation of intraarticular joint-depression calcaneal fractures with different screw configurations - a biomechanical human cadaveric analysis.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2022Trial
- Wrist external fixator-assisted percutaneous reduction for intra-articular calcaneal fractures: clinical and radiographic outcomes.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Does the postoperative quality of reduction, regardless of the surgical method used in treating a calcaneal fracture, influence patients' functional outcomes?BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- A nomogram for predicting post-operative wound complications after open reduction and internal fixation for calcaneal fractures.International wound journal · 2022Article
- Effects of Mind Mapping Combined with Microvideo Explanation on Disease Perception Control and Nursing Cooperation during Membrane Induction Therapy in Patients with Infectious Nonunion after Tibial Trauma.Emergency medicine international · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeSome previous studies have demonstrated that the sinus tarsi approach (STA) is a better therapeutic method than the extensile lateral approach (ELA) for displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures. In a number of those previous studies, two different implants were used in the two approaches respectively. There is a question: if using the same implants, is STA still a better method than ELA? To answer this question, this retrospective study was designed.
methodsBetween December 2009 and December 2018, 384 patients with displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures were treated by ELA or STA with the same locking compression plates fixation. Data on demographics, wound complications, Bohler's angle, crucial angle of Gissane, walking visual analogue scale (walking-VAS) and American Orthopedics Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) ankle-hindfoot scale were recorded and analyzed.
results230 patients were treated by ELA, while 154 patients were treated by STA. Radiological and clinical results were evaluated. There were no significant differences between the two groups with respect to wounds complications, Bohler's angle, crucial angle of Gissane, walking-VAS and AOFAS ankle-hindfoot scale.
conclusionsUnder the condition of using the same locking compression plates, there were no significant differences between ELA and STA for the treatment of displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures with regard to wound complications, radiological and clinical outcomes.
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