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Comparison Of Intraarticular Distal Humerus Fracture Outcomes Treated With Or Without Olecranon Osteotomy - A Case Series, Naveed Baloch, Tashfeen Ahmad, Zehra Abdul Muhammad

Section of Orthopaedic Surgery

A case series was extracted from the trauma registry at Aga Khan University Hospital from the period June 2015 to June 2019. Included were 16 adult patients who presented with intra-articular distal humerus fracture type C2. The functional, clinical and radiological outcomes of fractures treated with or without olecranon osteotomy up to 12 months follow-up were compared. Outcomes were assessed at 6 weeks, 3, 6 and 12 months re-visits. Among the 16 studied patients, 9 (56%) were males and 7 (44%) were females. In the group without osteotomy, there was a good functional and clinical outcome with a mean Quick …