Buried Versus Exposed Kirschner Wires Following Fixation of Hand Fractures: l Clinician and Patient Surveys

Buried Versus Exposed Kirschner Wires Following Fixation of Hand Fractures: l Clinician and Patient Surveys

Background:. Fractures of the metacarpals and phalanges are common. Placement of Kirschner wires (K-wires) is the most common form of surgical fixation. After placement, a key decision is whether to bury the end of a K-wire or leave it protruding from the skin (exposed). A recent systematic review f...

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Main Authors: WIRE Research Collaborative, Matthew D. Gardiner, Sonya Gardiner, Fadi Issa, Abhilash Jain, Hawys Lloyd-Hughes, Theodore Pezas, Jeremy N. Rodrigues, Justin C. R. Wormald, Frank Acquaah, Neil Brierley, Shixin Bickerton, Whitney Chow, Juliet Clutton, Samuel Coulson, Pat Crowley, Sarah Jayne Edmondson, Andy Fowler, Michael Gallagher, Sophie Howles, Jonathan Jones, Lubna Khan, Dharini Kulendran, Clare Langley, Robert Manton, Mohamed Mohamed, Lisa Ng, Andrej Salibi, Gujral Sameer, Nic Segaren, Kavita Sharma, Andreas Shiatis, Kathryn Steele, Camilla Jay-Stewart, Cindy Suwito, Amy Tam, Arron Thind, Ryckie Wade, Natasha Wielogorska, Katie Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer 2018-04-01
Series:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Online Access:http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000001747

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