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. 2018 May;43(4):402-406.
doi: 10.1177/1753193417726051. Epub 2017 Aug 21.

Rising incidence of scaphoid fracture surgery in Finland

Lauri T Raittio  1   2 , Jarkko Jokihaara  3 , Tuomas T Huttunen  2   4 , Olli V Leppänen  2   3 , Antti P Launonen  1 , Ville M Mattila  1   2
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Rising incidence of scaphoid fracture surgery in Finland

Lauri T Raittio et al. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2018 May.

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of scaphoid fracture surgery by obtaining data from the national discharge register in Finland, a country of 5 million inhabitants, for the period from 1997 to 2014. A total of 1380 patients with scaphoid fracture were treated surgically. Half of the patients were aged under 28 years and 84% were men. The surgical treatment of scaphoid fractures was classified into two groups. There were 640 (46%) primary fracture fixations and 740 (54%) treatments of fracture nonunion. The overall incidence of all scaphoid fixations increased twofold (from 14.8 to 30.1 per 1,000,000 person-years) and threefold in the primary fixation group (from 5.5 to 17.8 per 1,000,000 person-years) during the study period.

Level of evidence: III.

Keywords: Epidemiology; bone fracture; bone scaphoid; incidence; operative therapy.

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