Session X - Upper Extremity Sunday, October 13, 2002

Moderators: Charles N. Cornell, MD & David S. Rusch, MD
10:10 AM The Impacted Varus Proximal Humeral Fracture. Which Factors Affect Outcome?

Charles M. Court-Brown, MD, FRCS; Margaret M. McQueen, MD, FRCS; Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

10:16 AM Treatment of High-Energy Supracondylar/Intercondylar Fractures of the Distal Humerus

Lisa K. Cannada, MD, Mary B. Zadnik, OTR/L; Walter Andrew Eglseder, MD; University of Maryland Medical Center, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

10:29 AM A Randomized Controlled Trial of Closed Reduction and Casting versus Closed Reduction and External Fixation for Distal Radius Fractures with Metaphyseal Displacement but Without Joint Incongruity

Hans J. Kreder, MD, FRCS(C); Douglas P. Hanel, MD; Julie Agel, MA, ATC; Michael D. McKee, MD, FRCS(C); Thomas E. Trumble, MD; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (-OREF Grant)

10:35 AM The Aberdeen Colles-Fracture Brace: An Alternative Treatment for Colles Fracture: A Prospective Randomized Multicenter Study

Nezar S. Tumia, FRCS1; Douglas Wardlaw, FRCS1; Jeffrey P. Hallett, FRCS2; Robert Deutman, MD3; Sten A. Mattsson, MD4; Bengt Sandén, MD4; 1Department of Orthopaedics, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, United Kingdom; 2Department of Orthopaedics, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Ipswich, Suffolk, England; 3Department of Orthopaedics, Martini Hospital, Groningen, The Netherlands; 4Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

10:41 AM A Randomized Controlled Trial of Indirect Reduction and Percutaneous Fixation versus Open Reduction and Internal Fixation for Displaced Intraarticular Distal Radius Fractures

Hans J. Kreder, MD, FRCS(C); Douglas P. Hanel, MD; Julie Agel, MA, ATC; Michael D. McKee, MD, FRCS(C); Thomas E. Trumble, MD; University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (-OREF Grant)

10:54 AM *The Role of Distal Radial Osteotomy in the Restoration of Wrist and Hand Function

Margaret M. McQueen, MD, FRCS; Alison Wakefield, MSc, MCSP; Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom (a-Stryker Howmedica Osteonics)

11:00 AM *Corrective Osteotomy of Dorsally Malunited Fractures of the Distal Radius via the Extended Flexor Carpi Radialis Approach

Jorge L. Orbay, MD (d-Hand Innovations, Inc.); Alejandro Badia, MD; Roger K. Khouri, MD; Eduardo González, MD; Diego L. Fernandez, MD; Igor R. Indriago, MD; Miami Hand Center, Miami, Florida, USA; Lindenhof Hospital, Berne, Switzerland

11:13 AM Functional Outcome after Open Reduction and Internal Fixation of Both-Bone Forearm Fractures

Frank Tull, MD; Joseph Borrelli, Jr., MD; Dawn Ray, RN; William M. Ricci, MD; Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

11:19 AM *Health Status after Wrist Arthrodesis for Posttraumatic Arthritis

Lauren P. Adey, MD; David C. Ring, MD; Jesse B. Jupiter, MD; Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (a-AO Foundation)