Table 6.

Healing complications of distal femur fractures treated with locking plates

Study	Number of fractures	% open fractures	% nonunions	% delayed unions	% needing bone graft or hardware revision	% hardware failures	Average time to healing (weeks)	Average followup (months)
Fankhauser et al. [6] (2004)	30	47%	0	3%	20%	20%	12	20
Gaines et al. [7] (2008)	109	41%	8%					6
Kayali et al. [11] (2007)	27	26%	0		4%	7%	15	26
Kregor et al. [15] (2001)	66		0		5%		11	9
Kregor et al. [16] (2004)	103	34%	2%		10%	5%		14
Markmiller et al. [20] (2004)	20		10%	0	10%	0	14	12
Schandelmaier et al. [27] (2001)	54	19%	2%	6%	11%	9%	13	6
Schutz et al. [28] (2001)	112	30%	5%	6%	11%	5%		14
Schutz et al. [29] (2005)	52	32%	4%	12%	19%	6%		12
Syed et al. [31] (2004)	18	22%	0				13	18
Vallier et al. [32] (2006)	46	54%	9%	15%	20%	13%		12
Weight and Collinge [34] (2004)	22	27%	0	0	0	0	13	10
Wong et al. [36] (2005)	16		0		13%	13%	30	23
Current study	70	26%	20%		13%	8%	12	20