title: [The social environment and consequences in patients with posttraumatic osteomyelitis].
abstract: As soon as the extent of damage--especially in infected nonunion with substantial bone defect--becomes clinically apparent, the patient should be fully informed about the possibilities of treatment, which functional result can be expected in an attempt to salvage the extremity and the implications of long-term hospitalization with the necessity for multiple operations on the patient's social and professional rehabilitation. The patient may then decide for himself that early amputation will give him much better chances in his future life.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000671:Amputation, Surgical / Q000523:psychology*; D005597:Fractures, Open / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D010019:Osteomyelitis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000150:complications
vernacular_title: Soziales Umfeld und Konsequenzen bei Patienten mit posttraumatischer Osteomyelitis.