title: Which patients undergo a surgical reintervention following a distal radius fracture?
abstract: Not all malunited distal radius fractures cause pain or functional impairment, and only few patients require a surgical correction or a salvage procedure. The purpose of this retrospective study was to investigate differences between 38 patients who underwent a reintervention and 65 patients who did not. The only discriminative variable in the current study was age : 46 years in the reintervention group versus 59 years in the non-reintervention group (p < 0.0001). Differences in gender or type of malunion were not significant, and thus not discriminative. It can be concluded that patient age may be more often associated with a reintervention than gender or radiological characteristics of wrist fractures.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium. Nadine.hollevoet@ugent.be
authors.forename: Nadine
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hollevoet
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Vanhove
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.
authors.forename: Akkie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ringburg
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vanden Berghe
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D017759:Fractures, Malunited / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010027:Osteotomy; D011884:Radius / Q000601:surgery*; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D012086:Reoperation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012189:Retrospective Studies