Table 3.
Complications related to fracture fixation.
| Fixation technique | Number | Complications |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implant removal | Re-fixation | Infections | Non-union | ||
| TBW | 81 | 29 (36%) | 1 (1%) | 4 (5%) | 0 |
| Plate | 33 | 3 (9%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Suture | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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