title: [Understanding the treatment of Colles fracture with wrist joint fixation with plaster in flexion-ulnar position].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical effects of wrist joint fixation in flexion-ulnar position for the treatment of Colles fracture.
  
  
  METHODS
  From January 1998 to June 2008,120 patients with Colles fracture were treated with wrist joint fixation with plaster in flexion-ulnar position. There were 52 males and 68 females with an average age of 57.6 years (ranged, 22 to 90); 41 cases were left, 69 cases were right, and 10 cases were hibateral. All of them were fresh closed fractures. According to fracture displacement to typing, type I of 34 cases, type II of 36 cases, type III of 32 cases, type IV of 18 cases.
  
  
  RESULTS
  With dislocated (II-IV type) 86 patients were followed up for 10 months in average. 86 cases with displaced fragments achieved clinical bony union. According to standard of Dienst, 59 cases got excellent results, 12 good, 10 fair, and 5 poor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The wrist fixation with plaster in flexion-ulnar position in treating Colles fracture may maintain good fixation after reduction and obtain better functional recovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Guangming Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Pudong, Shanghai 201300, China. ligangjian666@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Gang-Jian
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wen-Jie
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Qi
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Min
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002370:Casts, Surgical; D003100:Colles' Fracture / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020127:Recovery of Function; D014955:Wrist Joint / Q000601:surgery*