Search for dissertations about: "clavicle fractures"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words clavicle fractures.

  2. 1. Clavicle Fractures : Epidemiology, classification, treatment and outcome, with emphasis on displaced lateral clavicle fractures

    Author : Caroline Kihlström; Olof Wolf; Hanna Björnsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Clavicle fractures; Displaced lateral clavicle fractures; Epidemiology; Classification; Treatment; Outcome; The Swedish Fracture Register; Validation; Orthopaedics; Ortopedi;

    Abstract : The rate of surgical treatment for clavicle fractures has increased dramatically in the past 20 years, but the necessity for this remains obscure, particularly for displaced lateral clavicle fractures. The overall aim of the thesis is to acquire knowledge that may help guide treatment decisions for clavicle fractures, with an emphasis on displaced lateral fractures. READ MORE

  4. 2. Clavicular Fractures, Epidemiology, Union, Malunion, Nonunion

    Author : Jan Nowak; Lennart Hovelius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Surgery; Clavicular fractures; Clavicle epidemiology; Clavicle malunion; Clavicle nonunion; external fixation; prospective; Kirurgi; Surgery; Kirurgi; Surgery; kirurgi;

    Abstract : During a three-year period (1989-91), all patients living in the county of Uppsala, Sweden, with a radiographically verified fracture of the clavicle were prospectively, consecutively followed (n=245). The epidemiological study (I) was restricted to the two first years with 187 fractures in185 patients. READ MORE

  5. 3. Birth centre care : reproduction and infant health

    Author : Karin Gottvall; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Birth centre; alternative maternity care; birth experience; reproduction; perinatal mortality; infant morbidity.;

    Abstract : This thesis has two general aims, to investigate factors affecting women s decision to have a second baby and to study the effect of birth centre care on infant outcome. The specific aims were to investigate 1) whether birth centre care during a woman s first pregnancy had an effect on her future reproduction, 2) whether a negative experience of the first birth had en effect on future reproduction, and 3) whether birth centre care had an effect on perinatal mortality 4) and on morbidity during the infant s first month. READ MORE