Abstract
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to compare the outcome of the conical fully threaded headless screw to that of a smooth shaft headless screw in a series of scaphoid nonunions requiring screw fixation to determine if screw design had an influence on union rates.
METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 104 cases of surgically treated scaphoid nonunions. After eliminating cases with our exclusion criteria, the study cohort had 40 cases for analysis. A comparison and analysis of union rates was undertaken between the fully threaded Acutrak 2 mini screw and the smooth shaft Herbert screw.
RESULTS: Overall union rate for screw fixation was 88%. The fully threaded conical screw fixation had a significantly lower union rate of 50% compared to 97% for the smooth shaft screws.
CONCLUSIONS: Our data revealed that the fully threaded conical screws were associated with significantly lower union rate compared to the smooth shaft Herbert type screws.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 273-279 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Hand surgery : an international journal devoted to hand and upper limb surgery and related research : journal of the Asia-Pacific Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Fixation
- Nonunion
- Scaphoid
- Screw
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Medicine