Table 3. Characteristics of the patients who had treatment for their SL diastasis.

Characteristics	Patient with treatment for SL diastasis
	Patient 1	Patient 2	Patient 3	Patient 4
Age in years	52	56	64	53
Sex	♀	♂	♀	♂
Reported obesity in medical chart	No	Yes	Yes	No
Reported alcohol abuse in medical chart	No	No	No	No
Reported tobacco abused in medical chart	No	No	No	No
Trauma characteristics
Mechanism of Injury
Injured wrist	Dominant	Nondominant	Nondominant	Nondominant
Open versus closed fracture	Closed	Closed	Closed	Closed
Diagnosis and treatment characteristics
Time from injury to distal radius surgery	16 days	12 days	5 days	1 day
Time from injury to first radiograph stating SL diastasis	28 days	0 days	250 days a	0 days
Type of DRFx treatment	ORIF	ORIF	ORIF	ORIF
Radiographic characteristics
Type of radiograph for first diagnosis	Postreduction	Postreduction	Post-op follow-up	Prereduction
Measured SL diastasis on first SL+ radiograph	2.9 mm	5.3 mm	2.3 mm a	4.3 mm

Abbreviations: DRF, distal radius fracture; ORIF, open reduction internal fixation; SL, scapholunate ligament.

^aThis patient had an intraoperatively discovered SL diastasis that was treated in the same procedure. The first radiograph where a radiologist mentioned a SL diastasis was 36 weeks post-op.