Long leg splinting for pediatric femur fractures

Bennet A. Butler; Cort D. Lawton; Robert Christian; Ryan E. Harold; Prasad Gourineni; John F Sarwark

doi:10.1016/j.jor.2018.08.043

Long leg splinting for pediatric femur fractures

Bennet A. Butler^*, Cort D. Lawton, Robert Christian, Ryan E. Harold, Prasad Gourineni, John F Sarwark

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Orthopaedic Surgery

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Background: Pediatric femur fractures are frequently encountered injuries frequently treated with spica casting. Spica casting may, however, be expensive and burdensome to patients. A possible alternative is a long leg splint. Methods: Patients aged 6 months to 5 years old who were treated for a femoral shaft fracture with a long leg splint extending above the waist were matched with a patient treated with a spica cast. Results: At the time of healing, the alignment in the spica cast group was only significantly better than the alignment of the splint group with respect to coronal angulation.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	971-973
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Orthopaedics
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jor.2018.08.043
State	Published - Dec 2018

Keywords

Femur fracture
Level of evidence: III
Pediatric femur fracture
Spica cast
Spica casting

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Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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