[Technic and results of clavicular medullary wiring]

Pseudo-arthrosis was recorded from 13 per cent of patients whose clavicular fractures had been treated by wire fixation. Too short fragmental splinting, postoperative diastasis, use of too thin wires (2 mm in diameter) or intricate shapes of fracture (fragmental) were causes of poor results. Neither parallel nor sagittal skin incision was cosmetically acceptable. Kirschner's wire fixation, when applied to short fractures in the central third of the clavicula--has proved to be a simple and promising method of stabilisation.