Affiliation:
1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
Hospital General de Granollers, Granollers, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
Between 1997 and 2006, radiographs of 66 scaphoid fractures were retrospectively reviewed to evaluate ulnar variance. Twenty-one (31.8%) patients had an ‘ulna neutral’ wrist, six (9.1%) had an ‘ulna plus’ and 39 (59.1%) had an ‘ulna minus’ wrist. The mean ulnar variance was −1.3 (SD 1.8) mm (range −5.5, 2.5). We observed a significant difference in the distribution of ulnar variance ( P < 0.00001) and in the proportion of cases with ulna minus (OR = 5.0; 95% CI: 2.7, 9.3) compared to previous publications.
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