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Objective To investigate the clinical effect of the treatment for hand trauma with free flap of radial artery superficial palmar branch.Methods Selected 100 cases of patients with hand trauma who were treated in our hospital from January 2013 to December 2015.All the patients were treated with free flap of radial artery superficial palmar branch.The postoperative necrosis rate,survival rate,and infection rate of flap of all the patients were observed.All the patients were followed up for 6 months,and the healing of fracture were evaluated by X-ray examination so as to evaluate the hand function recovery.Results After the treatment,there were 9 cases of flap local necrosis and 10 cases of local infection,and the necrosis rate and infection rate were 9% and 10% respectively.The infection was controlled effectively after the symptomatic treatment and the flaps all survived.The swelling degree of skin flap was slight and the appearance was good.After 6 months of follow-up, the 100 cases all get epithelization completely.The X-ray examination showed that the fracture healing is good,with 7 cases of hook nail deformity and 5 cases of slow nail regeneration.The hand function recovery was excellent in 73 cases (73%),good in 16 cases (16%),and medium in 10 cases (10%).Conclusion It is an effective treatment for hand trauma with free flap of radial artery superficial palmar branch,as it can receive high flap survival rate and good recovery of hand function.
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Objective:To analyze and investigate the clinical efficacy on repairing soft tissue defects of the thumb distal with dorsal neurocutaneous vascular flap.Methods:Select 100 cases of patients with soft tissue defects of the thumb distal from January 2014 to December 2016,who were randomly divided into two groups,the control group and observation group.Take the abdominal skin flap to repair soft tissue defects of the thumb distal in the control group,with the thumb distal with dorsal neurocutaneous vascular flap in the observation group.The survival condition,the indicators of feelings,the appearance of skin flap,as well as the DASH score of the hand fimction have been recorded and analyzed through follow-up patients,to observe the effects on repairing soft tissue defects in the two groups.Results:All transplanted tisssues were all survived in the observation group and control group.Compared with control group,the sense of touch,temperature sense,monofilament,two-point discrimination,scar contracture of the observation group were better(P＜0.05),the incidence of bloat was lower (P＜0.05).The DASH scores were 29.56± 2.14,38.13± 3.12 in the observation group and control group,which was significantly lower in the observation group than that of the control group(P＜0.05).Conclusion:The clinical efficacy of the dorsal neurocutaneous vascular flap is better than that of abdominal skin flap on repairing soft tissue defects of the thumb distal.For no injury for major vascular nerves,little influence on donor area,being simple to operate,being better feelings of the finger pulp,appearance,dorsal neurocutaneous vascular flap on repairing soft tissue defects of the thumb distal is an ideal choice.
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BACKGROUND:Both local infiltration analgesia and femoral nerve block are used for the pain management after total knee arthroplasty. Controversy stil remains regarding the optimal technique for pain relief. OBJECTIVE:To systematical y evaluate analgesic effects of local infiltration analgesia and femoral nerve block after total knee arthroplasty. METHODS:Databases including PubMed, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, Web of Science and CBM, were comprehensively searched to identify randomized control ed studies comparing local infiltration analgesia with femoral nerve block. Two reviewers independently selected trials, included literatures, extracted data, and assessed the methodological qualities of included studies according to Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions Version 5.1.0. When there were different opinions, it was decided by the third author. Data were analyzed by RevMan 5.3 software. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1) Eleven randomized control ed trials involving 566 patients were included. (2) At 24 and 48 hours (h) after surgery, there were no significant differences between the local infiltration analgesia and femoral nerve block groups, in Visual Analog Scale scores [MD24 h=0.15, 95%CI (-0.26, 1.28), P>0.05;MD48 h=0.19, 95%CI (-0.06, 0.44), P>0.05] in the resting state, and [MD24 h=-0.01, 95%CI (-0.51, 0.48), P>0.05;MD48h=0.18, 95%CI (-0.45, 0.82), P>0.05] in the active state, amount of analgesic drug use [MD24 h=-2.23, 95%CI (-5.63, 1.16), P>0.05;MD48 h=2.44, 95%CI (-1.08, 5.95), P>0.05], hospital stay [MD=0.05, 95%CI (-0.40, 0.50), P>0.05], postoperative nausea and vomiting [OR=1.09, 95%CI (0.39, 3.04), P>0.05] and postoperative infection [OR=0.99, 95%CI (0.44, 2.59), P>0.05]. (3) These results indicated that the analgesic effect of local infiltration analgesia was identical to that of femoral nerve block after total knee arthroplasty. Due to its simple operation, local infiltration analgesia can be used as a standard analgesia method after total knee arthroplasty.