Relationship Between Hand Dominance and Treatment Outcomes for Distal Radius Fractures in the Elderly in the Short-Term

Purpose: Many studies have found no notable long-term differences in functional outcomes between operative and conservative treatments for distal radius fractures (DRFs) in elderly patients. However, those studies have not considered hand dominance. The current study compared outcomes between both t...

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Main Authors: Takafumi Hosokawa, MD, Tsuyoshi Tajika, MD, PhD, Morimichi Suto, MD, Hirotaka Chikuda, MD, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589514120300414