Analysis of risk factors for postoperative wound healing in children with bone cysts
Muhan Yu, Yuxi Su · 2026
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Muhan Yu and Yuxi Su hunted for what makes surgical wounds heal badly in children treated for bone cysts. Their retrospective study appeared in Annals of Medicine in 2026. The single-center series covered ninety-nine children operated on between 2021 and 2025 for these benign, tumor-like bone lesions. Thirteen children, about one in eight, healed poorly, and the team compared their records against the rest across patient, lesion, and surgery factors.
Three independent risks survived the modeling. Children who got no preventive antibiotics, or only a single preoperative dose, faced far higher odds of poor healing than those on fuller protocols. Lesions involving the growth plate also raised the risk, as did operations lasting ninety minutes or more. Cyst recurrence gets most research attention in this field, the authors note, while wounds get little. Their advice is practical: standardize antibiotic cover and flag long, growth-plate cases for extra wound vigilance.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Muhan Yu, Yuxi Su |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |