Antegrade intramedullary nail versus plate fixation in the treatment of humeral shaft fractures: An update meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is no consensus regarding the surgical treatment of humeral shaft fracture. The present meta-analysis was performed to compare the efficacy and safety between antegrade intramedullary nailing (IMN) and plating for humeral shaft fracture.

Methods

PubMed, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, Clinical Trails, Ovid, ISI Web of Science, and Chinese databases including WanFang Data, China National Knowledge Infrastructure were searched through March 10, 2019. The Review Manager software was adapted to perform statistical analysis and relative risk (RR) were used for the binary variables, and weighted mean difference and standardized mean difference (SMD) were used to measure the continuous variables. Each variable included its 95% confidence interval (CI).

Result

SUBMITTER: Wen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6867742 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature