Extension fractures of the distal radius in patients older than 50: a prospective randomized study comparing fixation using mixed pins or a palmar fixed-angle plate

We randomized 103 patients over the age of 50 with an unstable closed intra- or extra-articular dorsally displaced distal radius fracture to have either palmar fixed-angle plating (n = 50) or ‘mixed pinning’ (n = 53) and compared the clinical and radiological outcomes at 3, 6, 12 and 26 weeks after surgery in a prospective study. Postoperative palmar tilt was significantly better in those stabilized with K-wires, but loss of reduction was statistically less in those stabilized with a plate. At 26 weeks, functional results, assessed by DASH and Herzberg scores, were better in those fixed with a plate.

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