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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Anesth Analg. 2009 Jan;108(1):345–350. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818c7da5

Table 3.

Primary Surgical Procedures

Group 0.2%
(n = 23)
Group 0.4%
(n = 27)
Metacarpal arthroplasty 6 5
Radial or ulnar ORIF/ 12 15
  fusion/resection
Thumb suspensionplasty/ 4 6
  fusion
Scaphoid ORIF or 1 1
  styloidectomy

Applying statistics to preintervention variables for subjects randomized to treatment groups is inappropriate. For this reason, no statistical comparisons were applied to the data of this table.

ORIF = open reduction internal fixation.