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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume, Vol 71-B, Issue 2, 307-310
Copyright © 1989 by British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery

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Patterns of union in fractures of the waist of the scaphoid

JJ Dias, IJ Brenkel, and DB Finlay

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, England.

Eighty-two of 85 patients who had sustained a fracture of the waist of the scaphoid in 1985 were reviewed more than one year after injury. The incidence of nonunion, defined as a clear gap at the fracture site one year after injury, was 12.3%. This was much higher than expected. Most of the patients with nonunion had symptoms and had appreciable restriction of wrist movement. In a further 25% of the patients at review, the site of the fracture could be easily identified although it appeared to have healed. These patients were older and more of them were women. Three-quarters of these patients had symptoms but their wrist movement was essentially normal.


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