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8403660

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
295
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-11-4
pubmed:abstractText
There are no data in the literature concerning the outcome of Colles' fracture beyond six years. One hundred consecutive patients with displaced Colles' fractures were reviewed ten years after the injury. Function, radiographic anatomy, osteoarthrosis, and reflex sympathetic dystrophy (algodystrophy) were all objectively assessed. By the time of this review, 35 patients had died. Eighty-five percent of those surviving had a satisfactory outcome. Forty-two percent had improved functionally in ten years and 20% had deteriorated. Initial and ten-year radial shortening and early finger stiffness significantly correlated with final outcome. Dorsal angulation influenced early but not ten-year function. Sixty-two percent of those with an unsatisfactory result had objective features of reflex sympathetic dystrophy, compared with only 6% of those with a satisfactory result. Osteoarthrosis was found in 37%, but in only 4% was it associated with an unsatisfactory outcome.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0009-921X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
270-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-3-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Function ten years after Colles' fracture.
pubmed:affiliation
University Department of Orthopaedics, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, England.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article