Advantages and Pitfalls of Stabilisation of Supracondylar Humerus Fractures in Children by Lateral Approach Only

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to compare the SCF stabilisation by CRLPP with the stabilisation by CRCPP in rotationally stable fractures and to identify the risk of iatrogenic ulnar nerve injury, or the failure of osteosynthesis with recurrent dislocation of fragments.

Keywords

• supracondylar fracture of the humerus
• paediatric fractures
• closed reduction
• percutaneous pinning
• lateral percutaneous pinning
• iatrogenic ulnar nerve injury
• osteosynthesis failure