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Distal radius fractures: what is the evidence?
Donald S Bae1, Andrew W Howard
1Children's Hospital Boston, USA.
Purpose:
To discuss the evidence base behind treatment of pediatric distal radius fractures.
Methods:
We identified randomized controlled trials addressing the treatment of children with torus fractures, minimally displaced fractures, and displaced fractures of the distal radius.
Results:
Torus fractures and minimally displaced fracture is treated by removable splints instead of circumferential casts with improved secondary outcomes for the patient and family and with equal position at healing. Case immobilization versus immediate pinning was studied in 2 small randomized trials of displaced fractures. Long-term outcomes were equivalent, despite more loss of reduction in the cast groups and more pin complications in the pin groups.
Conclusions:
Unbiased evalution of empirical patient outcomes using randomized trials has proven feasible for distal radius fractures and should continue to inform and guide our practice in the future.
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