Avulsion Fractures of the Calcaneal Tuberosity: A Single-Center Review of Outcomes and Complications.

Objectives: The goal of this investigation was to determine the incidence of complications and revision surgery after calcaneal tuberosity avulsion fractures, to describe experience with different fixation constructs, and to compare revision surgery rates between tuberosity and tongue-type fractures of the calcaneus.

Design: This was a retrospective study at a single level 1 trauma center between 2001 and 2019, including patients with calcaneal tuberosity avulsion fractures compared with patients with calcaneal tongue-type fractures.

Results: Twenty-nine tuberosity fractures (23 surgical and six nonsurgical) and 37 tongue-type fractures (29 surgical and eight nonsurgical) were treated during the study period.

Hip Fractures Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparative Demographics and Outcomes.

Introduction: During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, hip fractures requiring operative management continued to present to Stony Brook University Hospital. Given the novelty of SARS-CoV-2, there is recent interest in the pandemic and its relationship to orthopedic operative outcomes. This retrospective cohort study compared outcomes for operative hip fractures in patients prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic at a level 1 academic center.

Pilon Fracture: Preventing Complications.

Fractures of the distal tibial plafond (ie, pilon) comprise a broad range of injury mechanisms, patient demographics, and soft-tissue and osseous lesions. Patients often present with considerably comminuted fracture patterns and notable soft-tissue compromise. Surgical intervention must be performed with respect for the exceedingly vulnerable soft-tissue envelope and with a properly executed technique.

Extremity compartment syndrome following blunt trauma: a level I trauma center's 5-year experience.

Background: Extremity compartment syndrome is a recognized complication of trauma. We evaluated its prevalence and outcomes at a suburban level 1 trauma center.

Methods: The trauma registry was reviewed for all blunt trauma patients aged ≥18 years, admitted between 2010 and 2014.

Posterior thigh compartment syndrome as a result of a basketball injury.

Acute compartment syndrome of the thigh is a serious although rare occurrence that was sparsely documented in the orthopedic literature until Schwartz et al reported on a series of 21 cases. Although classically associated with high-energy femur fracture, thigh contusion, or the use of military anti-shock trousers, compartment syndrome of the thigh has recently been diagnosed in seemingly low-energy injuries. A complete hamstring avulsion from its ischial origin during routine ambulation and rupture of the quadriceps tendon after a low-energy fall have been shown to result in compartment syndrome.