Health-related Quality of Life After Fractures of the Lateral Third of the Clavicle in Children and Adolescents

Conclusions: Conservative treatment of lateral clavicular fractures in children and adolescents is associated with excellent health-related quality of life, as measured with the disease-specific Quick-DASH and the non–disease-specific Peds-QL at a mean follow-up of 6.5 years (range, 1 to 13.2 y). There was no effect of age at the time of injury, and we were unable to identify associations to commonly analyzed risk factors, such as displacement patterns. As the conservative treatment of this type of fracture in children and adolescents is associated with such a good health-related quality of life, it is unlikely that these results could be further improved by surgical interventions. Level of evidence: Level IV—case series.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics - Category: Orthopaedics Tags: Trauma Source Type: research