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SynthesisThe Journal of hand surgery, European volume2018

Functional outcomes of distal radius fractures with and without ulnar styloid fractures: a meta-analysis.

Marjolein A M Mulders, Lili J Fuhri Snethlage, Robert-Jan O de Muinck Keizer, J Carel Goslings, Niels W L Schep

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Synthesis in The Journal of hand surgery, European volume, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 53 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marjolein A M Mulders1 Trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Lili J Fuhri Snethlage1 Trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Robert-Jan O de Muinck Keizer1 Trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J Carel Goslings1 Trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Niels W L Schep2 Department of Surgery, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Academic Medical Center · NLMaasstad Ziekenhuis · NL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this meta-analysis was to compare the functional outcomes of patients with a distal radius fracture with and without a concomitant fracture of the ulnar styloid process. A systematic literature search was performed to identify all studies comparing patients with a distal radius fracture with and without an ulnar styloid process fracture. The initial search revealed 511 articles, of which 12 articles with a total of 2243 patients were included; 1196 patients with and 1047 patients without an ulnar styloid process fracture. A statistically significant mean difference of 3.40 points (95% CI 1.33-5.48) in the Disability of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand score was found in favour of patients without an ulnar styloid process fracture. This difference is less than 10 and therefore not clinically important. No significant difference was found in Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation scores, range of motion, grip strength, visual analogue scale pain scores, ulnar-sided wrist pain and distal radio-ulnar joint instability between patients with and without an ulnar styloid process fracture after 1 year of follow-up. Moreover, no significant differences were found between ulnar styloid base and nonbase fractures. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: I.

Indexed as

HumansRadius FracturesRecovery of FunctionTreatment OutcomeUlna Fracturesdistal radiusfracturefunctional outcomeUlnar styloid process

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PMID28931338
PMCPMC5791517
OpenAlexW2759123509

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