Clinical fracture of the carpal scaphoid— Supportive bandage or plaster cast immobilization?
- 29 February 1988
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)
- Vol. 13 (1) , 75-76
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0266-7681(88)90057-5
Abstract
In a prospective study of 108 patients with a clinical diagnosis of fracture of the carpal scaphoid, but without radiological evidence of fracture, the patients were randomised to treatment with either a supportive bandage or a dorsal plaster cast. Four patients proved to have incomplete fractures and three to have avulsions from the scaphoid tuberosity. Two of the fractures had been suspected radiologically at the primary investigation. No complete fractures of the scaphoid were seen.Keywords
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