Table 2.

Longitudinal radiographic outcomes of patients that received lateral column fixation via cortical screw or K-wire constructs (bold font indicates significance)

	Screw (n = 14)	K-wire (n = 12)	p
Stable Hardware, n (%)	12 (85.7%)	10 (83.3%)	0.867
Healed Fracture, n (%)	13 (92.9%)	12 (100.0%)	0.345
Hardware Removed	13 (92.9%)	11 (91.7%)	0.910
Staged Hardware Removal	5 (38.5%)	2 (18.2%)	0.276
Days to Hardware Removal (mean ± SD)	128.2 ± 37.2	78.6 ± 29.7	0.002