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    Incidence for volar locking plate removal following distal radius fracture surgery

    Distal radius fracture is the most common fracture in adults. The most common treatment for distal radius fracture is non-operative cast immobilization, although there are injuries that require surgical treatm...

    Vili Palola, Ville Ponkilainen in Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery (2021)

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    Estimates of the mean difference in orthopaedic randomized trials: obligatory yet obscure

    Randomized controlled trials in orthopaedics are powered to mainly find large effect sizes. A possible discrepancy between the estimated and the real mean difference is a challenge for statistical inference ba...

    Lauri Raittio, Antti Launonen, Ville M. Mattila in BMC Medical Research Methodology (2021)

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    Comparison of volar-flexion, ulnar-deviation and functional position cast immobilization in the non-operative treatment of distal radius fracture in elderly patients: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial study protocol

    Distal radius fractures (DRFs) are the second most common fractures, after hip fractures, seen in clinical practice. The high incidence of low-energy trauma DRFs in elderly patients raises questions about the ...

    Lauri Raittio, Antti Launonen, Teemu Hevonkorpi in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders (2017)