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The Natural Course of Traumatic Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex Tears in Distal Radial Fractures: A 13–15 Year Follow-up of Arthroscopically Diagnosed but Untreated Injuries
The Journal of Hand Surgery, 07/26/2012
Clinical Article
Mrkonjic A et al. – In this 13–15 year, prospective, longitudinal outcome study of the natural course of triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) tears associated with distal radius fracture, only 1 patient had been operated on for painful instability since the injury. The subjective and objective results did not provide evidence that a TFCC injury would influence the long–term outcome. However, trends were found and, by speculation, the low number of patients in the series and the risk for a type II error could be the cause of absent statistically significance. Larger, preferably prospective, randomized studies are needed to find out whether a more aggressive treatment is beneficial.
