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- Exposed pins from mallet fracture surgery hinder hand washing for patients.
- The authors designed a technique to bury pin tips under the skin during surgery for 14 patients, allowing them to wash their hands 4-5 days post-surgery without dressings.
- All patients achieved solid healing of their fractures, with no complications related to the buried pins and only a mean extension lag of 4° at follow-up.
Article Abstract
Pins exposed out of the skin after surgery for mallet fractures keep patients from washing their hands. The authors buried the tips of all pins under the skin while performing extension block pinning for 14 patients with mallet fractures. The patients were allowed to wash their hands 4 to 5 days postoperatively, without any dressing or splinting. The pins were removed at a mean of 8 weeks postoperatively. Solid union was achieved in all 14 fractures. No pull-out or subsidence of the pin was observed. No patient developed infection or other pin-related complications. Mean extension lag at final follow-up was 4°. [Orthopedics. 2018; 41(2):e299-e302.].
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