Bicondylar Tibial Plateau Fractures: What Predicts Infection?

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the patient, injury, and treatment factors associated with infection of bicondylar plateau fractures and to evaluate whether center variation exists.

Design: Retrospective review.

Setting: Eighteen academic trauma centers.

Complication Rates for the Anterior Approach to Total Hip Arthroplasty.

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most successful orthopedic surgeries performed in the United States. Orthopedic surgeons have looked to minimally invasive approaches for THA to reduce peri- and postoperative complications, and to improve patients' quality of life; the anterior approach THA has been advocated as such a minimally invasive surgery. This study involved a retrospective chart review of 2647 consecutive unilateral THAs using the anterior approach.