EPIDEMIOLOGICAL FACTORS AND RESULTS OF THE MANAGEMENT OF OPEN LEG FRACTURES IN ADULTS IN RABAT
Omar Aguenaou, Amine EL Maqrout*, Moncef Boufettal, Reda Lah Bassir, Mohamed Kharmaz, Moulay Omar Lamrani and Mohamed Saleh Berrada
ABSTRACT
This work reports a series of 178 cases of open leg fracture, hospitalized and treated at the Traumatology-Orthopedics Department of the CHU AVICENNE RABAT, for a period of 6 years from 2013 to 2018. Open leg fractures mainly affect males, with a percentage of 86.5%, and primarily concern young people aged between 26-35 years, i.e. 28% of the cases reported in our series. Their main cause is represented by road accidents, with a percentage reaching 80.8%. On the other hand, these fractures were classified as Type II according to the Cauchoix and Duparc classification in 41% of cases and as complex fractures in 70% of cases. In addition, surgical treatment interested 93% of our patients with predominance of the centromedullary nailing used at a rate of 53%.
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