Title of article :
DELAYED TREATMENT OF DISTAL TIBIAL FRACTURE LEADING TO PSEUDOARTHROSIS: A CASE REPORT
Author/Authors :
AYTEKIN, MAHMUT N. Fatih University Hospital - Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Turkey , TASBAS, BULENT A. Fatih University Hospital - Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Turkey , KÖMÜRCÜ, MAHMUT Fatih University Hospital - Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Turkey
Abstract :
62 years old man with hypertension, diabetes mellitus and renal failure had a multidrugresistant skin infection with displaced distal tibia fracture. Conservative treatment was considered due to the infection. Although the infection resolved two weeks after treatment with antibiotics, surgical treatment has not been applied. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy and pseudoarthrosis has occurred on 5th months of the fracture. We think that the operation should have been done as soon as the infection resolved
Keywords :
Fracture , pseudoarthrosis , tibia
Journal title :
Medical Journal of Islamic World Academy of Sciences
Journal title :
Medical Journal of Islamic World Academy of Sciences
