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Fracture blister formation: a laboratory study
C P Giordano1, D Scott, K J Koval
1Hospital for Joint Diseases, Orthopaedic Institute, New York, New York 10003, USA.
The Journal of Trauma
|June 1, 1995
Abstract:
A biomechanical study was performed to examine a proposed mechanism of fracture blister formation. Sixty cadaver ankle skin specimens were subjected to several levels of uniaxial strain and examined histologically. Dermal-epidermal separation patterns similar to those found histologically in previous studies of biopsied fracture blisters were seen in specimens strained 152% and greater. These findings support the hypothesis that fracture blisters can result from strain developed in the skin during initial fracture deformation.