Scaphoid Fracture Displacement is Not Correlated with the Fracture Angle
Journal of hand surgery European volume(2021)
Abstract
Classifications of scaphoid fractures associate the angle of the fracture with its stability. To examine this assumption, we measured acute scaphoid fracture angles and inclinations in relation to different scaphoid axes, using fracture displacement as an indicator of instability. We examined the effect of using different axes on the measurements of angles. CT scans of 133 scaphoid fractures were classified according to the location of the fractures. Using a three-dimensional computer model, we computed four scaphoid axes. For each fracture, we then measured the fracture angle and the direction of the fracture inclination in relation to each one of the axes. We found a correlation between displacement and the angles of proximal fractures using one of these axes (the surface principal component analysis axis). No such correlations were found for waist fractures, which were the majority of fractures. There were significant differences between the measurements made with different axes. The findings indicate that the angle of the fracture and the direction of the fracture inclination are minor factors in the displacement of most scaphoid fractures.Level of evidence: III
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Key words
Scaphoid fracture,fracture angle,three-dimensional analysis,wrist trauma,scaphoid long axis
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