Volar Locking Plate or External Fixation with Optional Addition of K-Wires for Dorsally Displaced Distal Radius Fractures: A Randomized Controlled Study

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 217-224

  Mellstrand Navarro, Cecilia ^a   Ahrengart, Leif ^a   Törnqvist, Hans ^a   Ponzer, Sari ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

distal radius fracture; external fixation; open reduction internal fixation; percutaneous; randomized controlled study; surgical treatment; volar plate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE LENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN REDUCTION; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT RATED WRIST EVALUATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REOPERATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TENOSYNOVITIS; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION; AGED; BONE PLATE; BONE WIRE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FRACTURE HEALING; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST INJURIES;

AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE WIRES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 84952050761     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000000519     Document Type: Article

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