Iatrogenic comminution of the phalangeal head during reduction or fixation of phalangeal neck fractures
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Iatrogenic comminution of the phalangeal head during management of phalangeal neck fractures has not been previously investigated. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the causes and outcomes of this particular iatrogenic complication. METHODS: A database of phalangeal neck fractures over a six-year period (2006 to 2011) was reviewed for this iatrogenic complication. Special attention was devoted to documenting the cause and pattern of comminution of the phalangeal head, as well as the outcome in range of motion. RESULTS: Of 152 cases treated during the study period, there were five (two children and three adults) with comminution. Two patterns of comminution were encountered: splitting and fragmentation of the phalangeal head. The complication occurred during open reduction and K-wire fixation, or during closed reduction in the emergency room. The outcome was generally poor and worse in patients with fragmentation of the entire head. Two of the five cases ultimately resulted in medicolegal claims. CONCLUSION: Comminution of the phalangeal head is a serious iatrogenic complication that may occur during the management of phalangeal neck fractures. Awareness of this complication is important and attempts should be made to avoid it.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".