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Long-Term Outcome of Articular Fractures of the Phalanges: An Eleven Year Follow Up

S. K. O’ROURKE
S. GAUR
N. J. BARTON

From the Department of Hand Surgery, Nottingham University Hospital

Correspondence: Mr. S. K. O’Rourke, FRCS, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Edith Cavell Hospital, Peterborough, Cambs. PE3 6QR.

Fifty-four patients with fifty-nine intra-articular fractures of the phalanges have been followed prospectively for eleven years, at the end of which time only four had significant pain and sixteen others discomfort in cold weather. Improvement in the symptoms and in the range of motion often continued for more than a year after injury. Although 17% of joints developed minor osteophytes or cysts, only one had both radiological evidence of arthritis and persistent pain.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 14, No. 2, 183-193 (1989)
DOI: 10.1016/0266-7681(89)90123-X
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