Table 3.

Comparison of functional outcomes of patients treated with internal fixation for acute fracture dislocations, for neglected injuries and salvage procedure for neglected injuries

Study	Functional Score	Grip strength (percentage of normal wrist)	Comments
Acute injuries treated with internal fixation
Trumble [10]	-	77
Knoll [11]	-	80
Souer [12]	71-66	76-67
Sotereanos [13]	65.5	77
Hildebrand [14]	66	73
Herzberg [1]	79	79
Chronic injuries treated with salvage procedure
Inoue [5]	62.5%- fair	63	Proximal row carpectomy
	37.5%-poor
Rettig [15]	-	34 (kg)	Proximal row carpectomy
Chronic injuries treated with internal fixation
Siegert et al [3]	6/16 (37.5%) satisfactory results	-	Mean interval between injury and surgery- 17 weeks
Inoue [5]	3 good, 1 fair and 2 poor		Mean interval between injury and surgery- 16 weeks
Kailu L et al [9]	four good, one fair, and one poor	-	Mean interval between injury and surgery- 17 weeks
Komurcu M et al [4]	72.5	26.33 (kg)	Mean interval between injury and surgery- 26 days
Our study	75	88