ReviewCureus2025
Beyond the Break: Radiologic Diagnosis and Outcomes of Necrotizing Fasciitis Complicating Orthopedic Fractures.
Review in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rapidly progressive infection with high mortality. When NF complicates orthopedic fractures, early recognition is particularly challenging because swelling, erythema, and pain may be misattributed to trauma or postoperative changes. A systematic review was conducted using PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane databases up to June 2025 according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses 2020 guidelines. Eligible studies included human patients with orthopedic fractures complicated by NF in whom radiologic evaluation and clinical outcomes were reported. Risk of bias was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute checklist for case reports. Six studies were included, comprising six individual patients with fracture-associated NF. Radiologic evaluation revealed that plain radiographs occasionally demonstrated subcutaneous gas, while CT consistently identified fascial gas, edema, and fluid tracking. MRI was most sensitive for detecting fascial necrosis, particularly in cases under immobilization casts. Clinical outcomes were poor: four patients died, one underwent limb amputation with subsequent death, and one achieved limb salvage with fracture union. Diabetes, ischemia, and virulent pathogens (e.g.,
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.