Mesregah MK. Rates of readmission and reoperation after operative management of midshaft clavicle fractures in adolescents. World J Orthop 2022; 13(8): 775-776 [PMID: 36159617 DOI: 10.5312/wjo.v13.i8.775]
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Mohamed Kamal Mesregah, MD, Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Menoufia University Faculty of Medicine, Yaseen Abd El-Ghafar St, Shebin El-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt. mohamed.mesregah@med.menofia.edu.eg
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Orthopedics
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Letter to the Editor
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World J Orthop. Aug 18, 2022; 13(8): 775-776 Published online Aug 18, 2022. doi: 10.5312/wjo.v13.i8.775
Rates of readmission and reoperation after operative management of midshaft clavicle fractures in adolescents
Mohamed Kamal Mesregah
Mohamed Kamal Mesregah, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Menoufia University Faculty of Medicine, Shebin El-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt
Author contributions: Mesregah MK revised the literature, collected data, wrote and revised the manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Mohamed Kamal Mesregah, MD, Lecturer, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Menoufia University Faculty of Medicine, Yaseen Abd El-Ghafar St, Shebin El-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt. mohamed.mesregah@med.menofia.edu.eg
Received: January 15, 2022 Peer-review started: January 15, 2022 First decision: February 21, 2022 Revised: February 21, 2022 Accepted: July 27, 2022 Article in press: July 27, 2022 Published online: August 18, 2022
Abstract
The present letter to the editor is a commentary on the study titled “Rates of readmission and reoperation after operative management of midshaft clavicle fractures in adolescents”. There is a debate over whether surgical treatment of clavicle shaft fractures improves clinical outcomes in adolescents. The readmission and reoperation rates following surgery should be identified.
Core Tip: Most mid-shaft clavicular fractures in adolescents have been typically treated nonoperatively with satisfactory outcomes. There is a major controversy over whether surgical treatment of clavicle shaft fractures in adolescents improves clinical outcomes in the same way it does in adults. There is a need to conduct multiple prospective randomized studies or large comparative database studies to better assess the operative management.
