Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nonunion in a displaced fracture of the scaphoid is four times more likely than nonunion in an undisplaced ...

Using a plaster cast to treat scaphoid wrist fractures of the wrist is equivalent to surgery in healing the bone, as long as the few that do not re-join are identified and fixed. Scaphoid wrist ...

Plaster casts are just as effective at healing certain types of wrist fractures as surgery, new research suggests. A cast should be used for scaphoid waist fractures in the wrist in the first instance ...

Objective: To determine the cost effectiveness of a magnetic resonance imaging scan (MRI) within 5 days of injury compared with the usual management of occult scaphoid fracture. Methods: All patients ...