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Percutaneous Kirschner Wire Fixation of Acute Mallet Fractures Percutaneousely Reduced by Towel Clip
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Chung Soo Han, Duke Whan Chung, Bi O Jeong, Hyun Chul Park, Jin Young Kim, Cheol Hee Park, Jin Sung Park
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J Korean Fract Soc 2009;22(4):283-287. Published online October 31, 2009
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12671/jkfs.2009.22.4.283
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To analyze the treatment of clinical results of the percutaneous Kirschner wire fixation of acute mallet fractures percutaneousely reduced by towel clip. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From August 2005 to April 2009, we evaluated nine fingers in eight patients, more than three months follow up. The type of injury was a axial loading in seven cases and direct blow in two. The average follow-up period was 10.1 months (range: 3~41 months). The indication of operative treatment was the presence of large bony fragment or the palmar subluxation of the distal phalnx. RESULTS: The range of motion was 3.7degrees (0~10degrees) in extension lag and 76.7degrees (60~90degrees) of flexion of the distal interphalangeal joint. CONCLUSION: The percutaneous Kirschner wire fixation of acute mallet fractures percutaneousely reduced by towel clip is one of the easy and simple method to stabilizing of bony mallet fracture.
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Citations to this article as recorded by  - Comparison of Surgical Outcomes of Percutaneous K-Wire Fixation in Bony Mallet Fingers with Use of Towel Clip versus 18-Gauge Needle
Ho-Seung Jeon, Chan-Sam Moon, Seo-Goo Kang, Kyeong-Seop Song, Uk-Hyun Choi
Journal of the Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand.2013; 18(1): 1. CrossRef
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Internal fixation with K-wires for the clavicular shaft fractures in young women
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Do Young Kim, Yong Wook Park, Gun Il Im, Chang Kyun Lim, Sang Soo Lee, Hyun Chul Park
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J Korean Soc Fract 2002;15(4):545-550. Published online October 31, 2002
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12671/jksf.2002.15.4.545
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To know the advantages and disadvantages of this procedure by analyzing the results of internal fixation with K-wires for clavicular shaft fractures in young women.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Twelve patients were followed for more than 1 year after the operation. All patients were female and average age was 28 years with average follow-up of 14 months. All cases were displaced fractures of the middle third with tenting of the skin and 2 cases were type 1 open fractures. After the operation, we investigated time to union, changes of K-wire, scar and disadvantages periodically.
RESULTS
There was no nonunion and time to union averaged 11.8 weeks. Migration and bending of the K-wires occured in one case. The length of surgical scar was about 4cm and the K-wires were easily removed under local anesthesia. But all patients complained of frequent radiographic evaluation, relatively long period of immobilization and irritation of the K-wires on medial part of the clavicle.
CONCLUSION
We think that internal fixation with the K-wires is one of the effective treatment options for the clavicular shaft fractures in young women.
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