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Kim and Chung: Treatment of Comminuted Distal Radius Fracutures with External Skeletal Fixation
Case Report

Journal of the Korean Society of Fractures 1990; 3(1): 3-9.

Published online: 14 July 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12671/jksf.1990.3.1.3

Treatment of Comminuted Distal Radius Fracutures with External Skeletal Fixation

Hee Joong Kim, Mood Sang Chung

Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Korea.

Copyright © The Korean Fracture Society

Abstract

Thirteen cases of comminuted distal radius fractures were treated with external skeletal fixation from January 1985 to June 1989. Those cases were reviewed with special respect to the loss of reduction during immobilization.
All fractures were healed with no remarkable complications and with minimal loss of redunction(average 1.1 mm loss in radial length).
We think that the results suggest that external skeletal fixation is a simple and reliable method to prevent the recollapse of the reduced comminuted distal radius fractures.

Keywords: Distal radius fracture, External skeletal fixation

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