ARTICULAR FRACTURES OF DISTAL RADIUS: COMPARISON OF TREATMENT AND CLINICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL OUTCOMES WITH VOLAR PLATE VERSUS HOFFMANN BRIDGING EXTERNAL FIXATOR.

The Wrist fractures are one of the most frequent traumatic pathologies. Surgery now more commonly recommended for this type of fracture as a means to improve the outcome of patients. The objective of this study is to compare treatment with volar plate VS. external fixation in these types of fractures. A total of 158 consecutive patients who had been operated on for distal radius fractures with or without ulnar involvement, were included in this study. 109 were treated with a volar plate and 49 with Hoffmann I. external fixator. The exclusion criteria were patients with a history of wrist fractures, with neurological diseases, pathological fractures and polytrauma patients. Clinical and rad iographic results…