Table 5. Reported infection rates comparing plates and tension bands.

Author	Design	Journal	N	Infection rate	Flap procedure rate
Duckworth et al., 2017 [12]	Prospective	Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery	32 plates, 30 tension bands	13% (4) plates, 0% (0) tension bands	0% (0)
Hume (&) Wiss, 1992 [8]	Prospective	Clinical Orthopaedics & Related Research	3 plates, 37 tension bands, 1 screw	0% (0) plates, 3% (1) tension bands	0% (0)
Tarallo et al., 2014 [14]	Retrospective	Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery	45 plates, 33 tension bands	0% (0) plates, 3% (1) tension bands	0% (0)
Amini et al., 2015 [15]	Retrospective	American Journal of Orthopaedics	10 plates 10 tension bands	0% (0) plates, 0% (0) tension bands	0% (0)
Schliemann et al., 2014 [16]	Retrospective	Acta Orthopaedica	13 plates 13 tension bands	8% (1) plates 8% (1) tension bands	0% (0)