Rising incidence of scaphoid fracture surgery in Finland. (May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Raittio, Lauri T.; Jokihaara, Jarkko; Huttunen, Tuomas T.; Leppänen, Olli V.; Launonen, Antti P.; Mattila, Ville M.
• Is Part Of: Journal of hand surgery. Volume 43:Number 4(2018)
• Page Start: 402
• Page End: 406
• Publication Date: 2018-05
• Subjects: Epidemiology -- bone scaphoid -- operative therapy -- bone fracture -- incidence; 617.575059
• DOI: 10.1177/1753193417726051
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-1934

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate the incidence of scaphoid fracture surgery by obtaining data from the national discharge register in Finland, a country of 5 million inhabitants, for the period from 1997 to 2014. A total of 1380 patients with scaphoid fracture were treated surgically. Half of the patients were aged under 28 years and 84% were men. The surgical treatment of scaphoid fractures was classified into two groups. There were 640 (46%) primary fracture fixations and 740 (54%) treatments of fracture nonunion. The overall incidence of all scaphoid fixations increased twofold (from 14.8 to 30.1 per 1, 000, 000 person-years) and threefold in the primary fixation group (from 5.5 to 17.8 per 1, 000, 000 person-years) during the study period. Level of evidence: III