Cochrane Review: Percutaneous pinning for treating distal radial fractures in adults

Zusammenfassung

# Percutaneous pinning for treating distal radial fractures in adults. ## BACKGROUND Fracture of the distal radius is a common clinical problem. A key method of surgical fixation is percutaneous pinning, involving the insertion of wires through the skin to stabilise the fracture. This is an update of a Cochrane Review published in 2007. ## OBJECTIVES To assess the effects (benefits and harms) of percutaneous pinning versus cast immobilisation alone and of different methods and techniques of

Kerninformationen

Trauma Group Specialised Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, MEDLINE, Embase, trial registers, conference proceedings and reference lists of articles up to June 2019. ## SELECTION CRITERIA Randomised or quasi-randomised controlled clinical trials involving adults with a ...

YSIS At least two review authors independently performed study screening and selection, 'Risk of bias' assessment and data extraction. We pooled data where appropriate and used GRADE for assessing the quality of evidence for each outcome. ## MAIN RESULTS We included 21 randomised controlled trial...

ting bias. Allocation concealment was secure in one trial only. All trials reported outcomes incompletely. The studies tested one of 10 comparisons. In the following, we report on those of the main outcomes for which evidence was available. No subgroup analysis, such as by pinning methods, was viabl...

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