What is Too Swollen? Correlation of Soft Tissue Swelling and Timing to Surgery with Acute Wound Complications for Operatively-Treated Lower Extremity Fractures
Riedel M, Parker A, Zheng M, Briceno J, Staffa S, Miller C, Kaiser P, Wu J, Zurakowski D, Kwon J. What is Too Swollen? Correlation of Soft Tissue Swelling and Timing to Surgery with Acute Wound Complications for Operatively-Treated Lower Extremity Fractures. Foot & Ankle Orthopaedics 2019, 4: 2473011419s00361. PMCID: PMC8697159, DOI: 10.1177/2473011419s00361.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchWound complicationsTiming of surgeryLower extremity fracturesEdema indexExtremity fracturesRisk factorsAnkle fracturesTobacco historyPost-operative wound complicationsNon-modifiable risk factorsOverall wound complication ratePatient-specific risk factorsAcute wound complicationsWound complication riskIndependent risk factorWound complication rateSoft tissue edemaSoft-tissue swellingLower extremity traumaAssessment of swellingComplication rateContralateral extremityFracture careIndependent predictorsComplication risk