Table 2.

Exclusion following title screening, abstract assessment and full text review.

Titles excluded n = 80	Abstracts excluded n = 40	Full text articles excluded n = 6
Surgical technique description n = 14 Review articles and current concepts n = 11 Paediatric cases n = 9 Radiological studies n = 7 Biomechanics studies n = 7 Post traumatic deformities n = 6 Case reports n = 5 Non and/or Malunion treatment n = 5 Deformity correction n = 4 Service evaluation n = 3 Epidemiological study n = 3 Conservative vs. operative management n = 2 Cadaveric studies n = 2 Animal studies n = 2	Conference proceedings/abstract n = 7 Frame only fixation n = 5 Studies comparing different external fixators n = 5 Radiological and/or cadaveric studies n = 4 Biomechanical analysis n = 4 Single therapeutic series n = 4 Paediatric patients n = 3 Poly trauma patients and/or damage control surgery n = 3 Surgical technique description n = 3 Pathological fractures n = 2	Interventions included monoplanar external fixation n = 1 arthroscopic assisted reduction with percutaneous fixation n = 1 Intervention included variation in internal fixation method n = 1 All types of tibial plateau fractures n = 1 Laboratory study with no clinical outcomes n = 1 All patients treated with combination of internal and external fixation n = 1