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Table 1

Study characteristics.

Study Country Number of patients Age (years) Gender (M/F) Follow-up (months) Loss to follow-up (IM nail/plate) AO classification Fracture type



IM nail Plate IM nail Plate IM nail Plate
Guo et al. (2010) China 44 41 44.2 (27–70) 44.4 (23–69) 50/35 12 13/13 43-A1: 13
43-A2: 16
43-A3: 15
43-A1: 13
43-A2: 12
43-A3: 16
Closed or Gustilo I
Mauffrey et al. (2012) UK 12 12 50 (39–60) 33 (24–43) 16/8 12 1/1 Closed or Gustilo I
Polat et al. (2015) Turkey 10 15 34.0 (9.7) 36.4 (10.7) 16/9 23.1 0/0 Closed
Daolagupu et al. (2017) India 21 21 35.2 (9.2) 39.1 (10.1) 32/10 12 0/0 43-A1: 11
43-A2: 6
43-A3: 4
43-A1: 10
43-A2: 9
43-A3: 2
Closed
Costa et al. (2017) UK 161 160 44.3 (16.3) 45.8 (16.3) 197/124 12 18/19 Closed

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