Intramedullary Nailing Versus Plating for Proximal Tibia Fractures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Extra-articular proximal tibia fractures make up to one-tenth of all tibia shaft fractures. Treatment options include conservative, nailing, plating and external fixation. There is no consensus on which method is superior if the patient is to be managed surgically.

Materials and methods

We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to know which definitive surgical treatment option (nailing or plating) is better for extra-articular proximal tibia fracture. We used search engines like PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Ovid Medline and Google Scholar to find articles comparing the results of nailing versus plating. We could identify only 4 articles regarding this and data was extracted and meta-analysis was done.

Results

Delayed union was common in the nailing g

SUBMITTER: Jindal K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8081780 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature