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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2017 Nov;140(5):697eā€“708e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000003750

Table 8.

Summary Outcomes Categorized by Palmer classification

Author Post-operative outcomes categorized by Palmer classification

1A 1B 1C 1D 2

Miwa et al., 2004 Clinical outcome Clinical outcome Clinical outcome Clinical outcome No case
Excellent 70% Excellent 50% Excellent 50% Excellent 40%
good 20% good 50% good 38% good 40%
fair 10% fair 0% fair 13% fair 0%
poor 0% poor 0% poor 0% poor 20%

McAdams et al, 2009 DASH 0 DASH 0 No case DASH 0 No case

Infanger et al., 2009 Pain level Pain level Pain level Pain level No case
severe 0% severe 0% severe 0% severe 0%
moderate 7% moderate 22% moderate 0% moderate 17%
mild 12% mild 22% mild 25% mild 17%
none 81% none 56% none 75% none 66%

Cardenas-Montemayor et al., 2013 No case DASH 17 Pain-VAS 2.3 No case No case No case

Broccoli, et al., 2014 No case No case No case No case DASH 30.2 Pain-VAS 1.2

Moldner et al., 2015 No case No case No case No case DASH 18 Pain-VAS 2.0

VAS-visual analogue scale (0ā€“10 scale); DASH-the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand