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Conclusion. Operative stabilization promoted healing and earlier mobilization, but carries a high-postoperative risk of infection. Nonoperative management should be considered in patients whose comorbidities prevent safe stabilization.
Retrospective Review of Lumbosacral Dissociations in Blast Injuries Retrospective Review Melvin D. Helgeson, MD; Ronald A. Lehman, Jr MD; Patrick Cooper, MD; Michael Frisch, MD; Romney...

A 7-year-old girl presented to the multinational medical unit at Kandahar Airfield with an open lateral malleolus fracture secondary to a blast in- jury. The ipsilateral lesser saphe- nous vein and sural nerve had been in- jured.
Major Max Talbot, MD J can chir (CJS), Vol. 51, No2, avril 2008