Table 1.

Literature review

Study	Number of patients	Average age (years)	Percent female	Average followup	Implants	Adjuvants	Complications	Nonunions	Time to union
Das De et al. [7]	12	63.1	100%	N/A	Six nails, six plates	N/A	Three plate failures	Three	N/A
Goh et al. [9]	9	66.9	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Kwek et al. [17]	17	66	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Somford et al. [31]	3	73	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	One contralateral fracture	N/A	N/A
Neviaser et al. [25]	19	69.5	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Lenart et al. [18]	10	70.4	100%	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ha et al. [11]	11	68	100%	27 months	Five nails, five plates	N/A	None	None	N/A
Capeci & Tejwani [4]	7	61	100%	N/A	Nails in 100%	None	None	None	4 months
Cermak et al. [5]	3	64.3	100%	8.33 months	Two nails, one plate	N/A	One delayed union	None	7.3 months

N/A = not available