Injury
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Multicenter Study Comparative Study
A paradigm shift in the surgical reconstruction of extra-articular distal humeral fractures: Single-column plating.
The study aimed (1) to examine if there are equivalent results in terms of union, alignment and elbow functionally comparing single- to dual-column plating of AO/OTA 13A2 and A3 distal humeral fractures and (2) if there are more implant-related complications in patients managed with bicolumnar plating compared to single-column plate fixation. ⋯ The current study suggests that exposure/instrumentation of only the lateral column is a reliable and preferred technique. This technique allows for comparable union rates and alignment with increased elbow functionality and decreased number of complications.
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The Chinese Head Trauma Data Bank (CHTDB) has been established, which includes 7,145 hospitalised cases with acute head trauma patients in 47 hospitals. ⋯ The CHTDB, the first head trauma data bank in China, has one of the largest numbers of cases of any head trauma data bank in the world. Our major findings on mortality may be helpful to neurosurgeons for predicting the outcome of acute head trauma patients.