Management of malunited Colles' fracture

ABSTRACT

Twenty malunited Colles' fractures [nineteen patients] were treated by corrective osteotomy bone grafting and K-wire fixation. The indications for surgery were based on the degree of the deformity radiologically, the functional limitation, the appearance of the wrist and the age of the patients. Excision of the lower end of ulna was performed in six patients. Average follow up period was 20 months. The procedure gave excellent and good results in eighteen wrists and fair in two wrists with no poor results: