Internal fixation of recent lateral humeral condyle fractures in children using a small-set screw

Thirty patients with simple fractures of the lateral humeral condyle were treated by open reduction and internal fixation with a screw of the small set. Three cases [10%] were type I, 15 [50%] type II and 12 [40%] type III [according to the classification of Wadsworth 1982]. [7] Twenty four patients [80%] were operated upon, within the first week after the onset of the fracture and six patients [20%] within the second week. Post-operative posterior plaster slab was used for 3-4 weeks for all of them. The least follow up period was three months, the longest was twelve. More satisfactory results were obtained in the older age group [8-11 years], patients who had no associated injury, anatomical reduction, and in longer follow up period. Some complications had been reported in the present study

Complications following recent lateral humeral condyle fractures in children

Thirty patients with recent simple displaced fractures of the lateral humeral codyle were treated by open reduction and internal fixation with a screw of the small set. Ten children with complications had been reported in the present study as infection, alternation in the carrying angle, lateral condyle overgrowth, fish-tail deformity, avascular necrosis, and non-union and fragmentation of the distal fragment. Myositis ossificans was not recorded