The Effect of Diabetes on Ankle Fracture Outcomes in the UK: A National Collaborative Assessment of Current Guidelines, Management and Surgical Choices in Ankle Fractures

Category: Trauma; Ankle Introduction/Purpose: Objectives: Ankle fractures associated with diabetes experience more complications with standard Open-Reduction-Internal-Fixation (ORIF) following AO-principles than those without diabetes. It is unclear if augmented/extended fixation strategies can impr...

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Main Authors: Ines Reichert MD PhD, Raju S. Ahluwalia MBBS, MFSEM(UK), BSc, FRCS(Tr&Orth), Cesar Wek FRCS (Tr & Orth), Thomas Stringfellow MRCS, Duncan Coffeyy MRCS, Sze Ping Tan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2022-11-01
Series:Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2473011421S00904