ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2026
Clinical study of modular external fixator for distal humeral metaphyseal-diaphyseal junction fractures in children.
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Background: This study evaluated the clinical efficacy of closed reduction with modular external fixation for pediatric distal humeral metaphyseal-diaphyseal junction (MDJ) fractures. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 45 pediatric patients (mean age 7.87 ± 5.03 years) treated from January 2020 to December 2024. Patients were divided into "linear" ( Results: The mean operative time was 42.8 ± 12.3 min in the "linear" group and 46.5 ± 17.9 min in the "triangular" group. All fractures healed satisfactorily. Healing time (11.0 ± 2.6 weeks vs. 10.2 ± 3.2weeks), final Baumann angles (72.80 ± 3.71 ° vs. 73.81 ± 7.40 °), and shaft-condylar angles (39.38 ± 8.32 ° vs. 35.51 ± 7.67 °) showed no significant differences between groups ( Conclusions: Modular external fixation demonstrated promising outcomes for pediatric distal humeral MDJ fractures, providing a minimally invasive treatment option with favorable functional recovery, and no second surgery is required to remove the internal fixation device. Low-position MDJ fractures (<20 mm) with a linear configuration can be sufficiently stabilized with K-wires, and the "triangular" configuration is more suitable for high-level fractures (≥20 mm).
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