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(93%). Tibia Milenkovic et al analysed 32 patients with segmental tibial shaft fractures (AO/OTA 42–C2), with an average age of 43 years. 26 Average time of union was 5.9 months for closed and 6.2 months for open fractures. Average follow
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early studies into the inter-observer reliability of the new system, demonstrating favourable results over the Gustilo-Anderson system 10 and good predictive abilities in guiding treatment. 11 The system is an improvement over the standard AO
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and processes; this is a very useful descriptive classification and one therefore sees it at the fundamental level of the much more recent AO/OTA classification. 24 This classifies scapula fractures into extra-articular injuries affecting the
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Patients with plate/cast AO classification, plate/cast Time points RoB score Total Male Female Age (range)* n Age (range)* A B C Arora et al. (24) Austria 73 18 55 75.9 (65–88) 36/37 77.4 (65–89) 10
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, which is important for planning the surgical management of these fractures. The Müller AO ( Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen ) classification of fractures is also commonly used ( 6 ). Considering that tibial plateau fractures are intra
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AO Johnstone PAS . The role of dose escalation and proton therapy in perioperative or definitive treatment of chondrosarcoma and chordoma: an analysis of the National Cancer Data Base . Cancer 2019 ; 125 : 642 – 651 . 36
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distal humerus (AO Type C2-3) that are acutely irreparable (32%), primary osteoarthritis (21%), end-stage rheumatoid arthritis (Mayo III-V) that was either not responsive to disease-modifying anti-rheumatic treatment or undertreated (21%), distal humeral
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items The fracture should be classified by either the AO or Frykman classification 13 or provide a specified, reproducible method of measuring the displacement radiographically. Data extraction of included studies was performed using a data
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