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Louis-Philippe Baisi1, Marc-Antoine Ricard1, Melanie Dodd-Moher2
1The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, The Ottawa Hospital Ottawa, ON, Canada; Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Purpose:
We compared the radiographic union and magnitude of humpback deformity correction when using different vascularized bone grafts (VBGs) and nonvascularized bone grafts (NVBGs) in the treatment of unstable scaphoid nonunions (USNUs).
Methods:
This was a retrospective radiographic review of 93 patients with an USNU treated between 2013 and 2022 at a single center by a single surgeon. Inclusion criteria included skeletally mature patients with radiographic evidence of an USNU resulting from failure of either nonsurgical or operative treatment. There were three treatment groups. Two groups were treated with either a palmar radiocarpal artery (PRCA) VBG or a 1,2 intercompartmental supraretinacular (1,2 IC-SRA) VBG. The third group comprised patients who were treated with a heterogeneous mix of NVBGs. Patients were followed radiographically at regular intervals until they were deemed healed or underwent a salvage procedure because of treatment failure. Measurements of carpal and scaphoid alignment were then repeated on the final imaging series and compared to preoperative measurements.
Results:
Ninety patients were included in the final analysis. PRCA VBG had the highest radiographic union rate, followed by 1,2 IC-SRA VBG and finally NVBGs. PRCA VBG had a significantly higher rate of union than NVBGs. Scapholunate angle change and scaphoid length change were greatest with PRCA VBG. These differences were statistically significant for the former when compared with 1,2 IC-SRA VBG and NVBGs and for the latter when compared with the 1,2 IC-SRA VBG in both univariate and multivariable analyses.
Conclusions:
PRCA VBG had the highest radiographic union rate compared with alternative grafts as well as providing the greatest degree of humpback deformity correction in the treatment of USNUs.
Type Of Study/Level Of Evidence:
Therapeutic IV.
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