Table 2. Description of the outcome of the DOB reinforcement technique in the first 14 patients.
Patient | Type of injury | Pronation/supination postop |
Surgical procedure | Follow-up | QuickDASH preop/follow-up | PRWHE preop/follow-up | Recurrent instability | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
♀ 23y | # distal radius 10 years earlier | No impairment | DOBR | 38 months | 71/48 | 56/54 | No | Ulnar irritation due to knot (Mitekanchor technique) |
♂ 19y | # distal radius and # scaphoid (waist) | 50/65 | DOBR | 34 months | 63/16 | 86/21 | No | Constrained ulna prosthesis after 6 months due to progressive osteoarthritis |
♂ 32y | Malunited distal radius # with DRUJ instability | No impairment | DOBR after reconstruction of radius | 33 months | 55/25 | 62/44 | No | Plate removal after healing of osteotomy |
♀ 27y | Ulna fracture treated with plate | No impairment | DOBR | 32 months | 84/68 | 93/56 | No | Borderline patient, fibromyalgia |
♀ 30y | # distal radius | 80/60 | DOBR | 31 months | 59/25 | 40/20 | No | Initial Adams/Berger procedure |
♂ 26y | Open Galeazzi fracture | No impairment | DOBR | 27 months | 39/18 | 70/48 | No | Radial shaft plate removed |
♀ 45y | # distal radius with congenital bowing of the radius | No impairment | DOBR | 26 months | 55/30 | 72/25 | No | Hyperlaxity syndrome, fixed with FiberWire |
♀ 25y | No fracture | No impairment | DOBR | 25 months | 68/9 | 64/0 | No | |
♂ 58y | #distal radius with ulnar styloid # | No impairment | DOBR | 21 months | 77/52 | 72/52 | No | Initial styloid fixation |
♀17y | # distal radius with # base ulnar styloid | No impairment | DOBR | 21 months | 46/2 | 59/16 | No | |
♀50y | # distal radius with fleck fracture ulnar styloid | No impairment | DOBR after reconstruction radius | 16 months |
63/16 | 85/22 | No | |
♀18y | Ulnar pain, no fracture | No impairment | DOBR | 16 months | 61/2 | 76/11 | No | |
♀ 55y | # distal radius | No impairment | DOBR after reconstruction of radius | 16 months | 34/34 | 40/23 | No | 30° lack of supination of EPL rupture due to plate radius |
♀ 57y | # distal radius | No impairment | DOBR | 20 months |
89/69 | 66/79 | Yes | Initial Adams/Berger procedure |
Abbreviation: DOBR, distal oblique bundle reinforcement.