Open AccessEffect of BMI on the clinical and radiological outcomes of pilon fractures
Author(s) -
Gültekin Sıtkı Çeçen,
Deniz Gülabi,
Erman Yanık,
Gökhan Pehlivanoğlu,
Halil Bekler,
Nurzat Elmalı
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta orthopaedica et traumatologica turcica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.586
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2589-1294
pISSN - 1017-995X
DOI - 10.3944/aott.2014.14.0073
Subject(s) - medicine , radiological weapon , pilon fracture , body mass index , surgery , incidence (geometry) , external fixation , physics , optics , prosthesis
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of BMI on clinical and radiological outcomes of pilon fractures. We hypothesized that obese patients, defined as having a BMI of 30 or higher, would not have worse functional and radiological outcome compared to non-obese patients.
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