The October 2024 Wrist & Hand Roundup360 looks at: Circumferential casting versus plaster splinting in preventing redisplacement of distal radial fractures; Comparable outcomes for operative versus nonoperative treatment of scapholunate ligament injuries in distal radius fractures; Perceived pain during the reduction of Colles fracture without anaesthesia; Diagnostic delays and physician training are key to reducing scaphoid fracture nonunion; Necrotizing fasciitis originating in the hand: a systematic review and meta-analysis; Study design influences outcomes in distal radial fracture research; Long-term results of index finger pollicization for congenital thumb anomalies: a systematic review; Enhancing nerve injury diagnosis: the evolving role of imaging and electrodiagnostic tools.
The August 2015 Wrist &
Hand Roundup360 looks at: Scaphoid screws out?; Stiff fingers under the spotlight; Trigger finger: is complexity needed?; Do we really need to replace the base of the thumb?; Scapholunate ligament injuries and their treatment: a missed research opportunity?; Proximal row carpectomy
The June 2014 Wrist &
Hand Roundup360 looks at: aart throwing not quite as we thought; two-gear, four-bar linkage in the wrist?; assessing outcomes in distal radial fractures; gold standard Swanson’s?; multistrand repairs of unclear benefit in flexor tendon release; for goodness’ sake, leave the thumb alone in scaphoid fractures; horizons in carpal tunnel surgery; treading the Essex-Lopresti tightrope; wrist replacement in trauma? and radial shortening reliable in the long term for Kienbock’s disease
The October 2012 Wrist &
Hand Roundup360 looks at: osteoarticular flaps to the PIPJ; prognosis after wrist arthroscopy; adipofascial flaps and post-traumatic adhesions; the torn TFCC alone; ulna-shortening osteotomy for ulnar impaction syndrome; Dupuytren’s disease; when a wrist sprain is not a sprain; and shrinking the torn intercarpal ligament.
The August 2012 Wrist &
Hand Roundup360 looks at: the Herbert ulnar head prosthesis; the five-year outcome for wrist arthroscopic surgery; four-corner arthrodesis with headless screws; balloon kyphoplasty for Kienböck's disease; Mason Type 2 radial head fractures; local infiltration and intravenous regional anaesthesia for endoscopic carpal tunnel release; perilunate injuries; and replanting the amputated fingertip.
The April 2012 Wrist &
Hand Roundup. 360 . looks at releasing the trigger finger, function in the osteoarthritic hand, complex regional pain syndrome, arthroscopic ligamentoplasty for the injured