What is it about?
To review the literature regarding the outcomes of the comparison of the surgical options for fixing the distal radius. To briefly document how surgical costs, operating times and complication rates may impact on the implant choice. The limitations of the literature when comparing the effectiveness of the different implants are also discussed.
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Why is it important?
To help the reader to understand the thought process of why you choose a particular implant to repair an injury to the lower end of the forearm and the pitfalls in the existing literature.
Perspectives
I decided to write this article because during my training, different surgeons had their preferences which often was not based on science. There were many issues in the literature which caused a variety of biases to affect the results and it is important to be able to identify those issues
Doctor CARY Keith FLETCHER
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This page is a summary of: Functional outcome of distal radius fractures, an implant based approach - Narrative review, Journal of Orthopaedic Reports, January 2023, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jorep.2023.100132.
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