Table 1.

Clinical series

Patient no.	Age/sex	Mechanism of injury	Indication for operative treatment	Radiographic healing	Complications
1	23/M	Forklift injury	Multiple trauma and radial shaft fracture	Yes	Rotational forearm contracture
2	91/F	Fall	Open fracture, radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
3	19/M	GSW	Open fracture and multiple trauma, arterial injury	Yes	Elbow stiffness, HO
4	22/M	MVA	Multiple trauma and radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
5	41/F	MVA	Multiple trauma	Yes	Symptomatic hardware requiring removal
6	31/M	MVA	Nonunion	Yes	None
7	72/F	MVA	Progressive fracture displacement	Yes	Transient ulnar nerve deficit
8	23/M	GSW	Multiple trauma and median nerve deficit	Yes	None
9	29/F	Fall	Fracture displacement and radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
10	33/M	GSW	Open fracture	Yes	None
11	47/M	Fall	Open fracture and radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
12	41/F	MVA	Fracture displacement and radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
13	21/M	Fall	Fracture displacement and radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
14	48/F	MVA	Multiple trauma and radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
15	50/M	MVA	Open fracture	Yes	Infection
16	34/M	MVA	Fracture displacement and radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
17	40/F	MVA	Nonunion	Yes	None
18	29/F	GSW	Nonunion	Yes	None
19	31/F	MVA	Nonunion, radial nerve deficit	Yes	None
20	53/M	Wrestling injury	Nonunion	Yes	None
21	47/M	Crush injury	Nonunion, hardware failure	Yes	HO

M male, F female, GSW gunshot wound, MVA motor vehicle accident, HO heterotopic ossification