• Turgut Akgül, Sinan Zehir, Güzelali Özdemir, Ferit Yücel, Abdulkadir Türk, and Özgür Çiçekli.
• Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, İstanbul University İstanbul Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey.
• Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2014 Jul 1;20(4):286-90.

BackgroundAlthough conservative measures are the general choice of treatment for clavicle fractures; surgery is advised for displaced and multifragmentary fractures. Open reduction and osteosynthesis with a plate-screw combination are used widely as surgical treatment options.MethodsIn our study, there were 21 patients with Edinburgh Type IIB clavicle middiaphysal fractures treated surgically with locked anatomical clavicle plate.ResultsAmong those 31 patients and 32 clavicle middiaphysal fractures, Seventeen clavicle fractures were right-side, and fifteen were left side. 24 of them were males, 7 of them were females and the mean age was 28 (15-62) years. The mean follow-up period was 12.3 (6-36) months and healing time 15.2 (12-20) weeks. 3 patients with Type IIB fracture had a healing time longer than 12 weeks. As the result of healing patients', mean constant score was 92 (85-98) and DASH score 9 (2-20). There has been a problem due to the implant detected in 3 (9%) patients.DiscussionSuccessful functional and radiographic results can be achieved as a result of the surgical treatment of the clavicle middiaphysal fractures with locked anatomical plates.

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