Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 7 Complications of displaced calcaneal fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis with bone grafting (group A) or without bone grafting (group B)
From: Surgical treatment of displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures: is bone grafting necessary?
Complications | Group A | Group B | p value |
|---|---|---|---|
Superficial defect | 12 (6.2 %) | 14 (7.4 %) | 0.425 |
Infection | 14 (6.9 %) | 11 (5.8 %) | 0.562 |
Post-op osteoarthritis | 27 (13.3 %) | 23 (12.7) % | 0.238 |
Subtalar fusion | 7 (3.4 %) | 6 (3.2 %) | 0.161 |