Table 2.

Reported cases of comminuted trapezium fracture in the literature.

Study	Age of patient (Y/O)	Mechanism of injury	Management	Follow up (months)	Reported results
Walker et al. [11]	17	MVA	ORIF with fat interpositional arthroplasty	6	Full painless ROM
Gelberman et al. [14]	Not reported	Not reported	Oblique traction + Banjo outrigger splint	2	Useful, painless ROM
McGuigan et al. [3]	58	Falling	ORIF with K wire	48	Painless, Very satisfied
	23	MVA	ORIF with K wire + bone graft	70	Painless, Very satisfied
Alonso et al. [15]	67	Falling	CRIF with K wire	6	Painless, completely satisfied
Kohyama et al. [6]	20	Direct trauma	ORIF with K wire + β tricalcium phosphate	24	Full painless ROM

Abbreviations: MVA, Motor vehicle accident; ORIF, Open reduction and internal fixation; CRIF, Close reduction and internal fixation; ROM, Range of motion.