%0 Journal Article
%T Valoraci¨®n de la utilidad del injerto y el sustituto ¨®seo en el tratamiento de las fracturas del radio distal
%A Balumelli
%A Mauricio
%A Simone
%A Juan Pablo
%A Olaz¨¢bal
%A Alfredo
%A Caruso
%A Juan Carlos
%J Revista de la Asociaci£¿3n Argentina de Ortopedia y Traumatolog£¿-a
%D 2011
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X background: the purpose of the following study is to measure the impact of bone substitute or bone graft to heal distal radius fractures, and its functional and radiographic results. methods: we retrospectively analyzed 49 cases of distal radius fracture treated with open reduction and internal fixation. group a used bone graft or bone substitute while cases in group b did not. non-union rates, as well as functional and radiographic results were compared between both groups. pearson's chi square test and t student test were used to assess outcomes; p < 0.05 was considered significant. results: there were no non-unions. groupa had an average green & o'brien score of 81, and group b 84, the difference was not significant. better extension was achieved in group b with a significant difference. there was no difference regarding radiological results. conclusions: we have not found sufficient evidence in our results to recommend the systematic use of bone graft or bone substitute in distal radius fractures to prevent non-union.
%K distal radius fracture
%K bone substitute
%K bone graft
%K non-union.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1852-74342011000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en