title: Comparison of activities of daily living after proximal row carpectomy or wrist four-corner fusion.
abstract: Proximal row carpectomy and four-corner fusion are commonly used in the patients with scaphoid nonunion advanced collapse or scapholunate advanced collapse. We compared activities of daily living of the 24 patients after proximal row carpectomy with 24 patients with four-corner fusion procedures using the modified Sollerman hand function test and Michigan Hand Questionnaire. Most tasks were performed significantly quicker by the patients after proximal row carpectomy. The patients after proximal row carpectomy reported better function during activities of daily living.
  
  
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  Level III, Therapeutic Study.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Brinkhorst
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Dias
authors.affiliation: 3 Xpert Clinic, Hilversum, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Feitz
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: S E R
authors.initials: SER
authors.lastname: Hovius
keywords: Four-corner fusion; hand function; proximal row carpectomy; scaphoid nonunion advanced collapse; scapholunate advanced collapse