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Lauri T Raittio1,2, Jarkko Jokihaara3, Tuomas T Huttunen2,4
11 Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Abstract:
The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of scaphoid fracture surgery by obtaining data from the national discharge register in Finland, a country of 5 million inhabitants, for the period from 1997 to 2014. A total of 1380 patients with scaphoid fracture were treated surgically. Half of the patients were aged under 28 years and 84% were men. The surgical treatment of scaphoid fractures was classified into two groups. There were 640 (46%) primary fracture fixations and 740 (54%) treatments of fracture nonunion. The overall incidence of all scaphoid fixations increased twofold (from 14.8 to 30.1 per 1,000,000 person-years) and threefold in the primary fixation group (from 5.5 to 17.8 per 1,000,000 person-years) during the study period.
Level Of Evidence:
III.
