Table 2.

Results of the medial and lateral plating in distal tibial fractures.

Parameters	Median plating group (n = 18)	Lateral plating group (n = 18)	t value	p value
Operative time (min)	95.6 ± 13.3	86.4 ± 12.7	2.12	0.04
Union rate	16/18	17/18	0.36	0.54
Healing time (weeks)	19.2 ± 4.2	18.6 ± 5.1	0.38	0.70
Symptomatic hardware	9	4	3.01	0.08
Hardware removal	7	0	–	–
Superficial infection	5	1	3.20	0.07
Wound dehiscence	2	0	–	–
Result grading			1.40	0.71
Excellent	1	3
Good	8	7
Fair	7	7
Poor	2	1
Ankle dorsiflexion (°)	17.2 ± 7.8	19.3 ± 8.5	−0.77	0.45
Ankle plantar flexion (°)	30.7 ± 8.6	34.2 ± 9.1	−1.19	0.24