Impacted Extra-articular Radius Fracture – Acu-Loc 2 VDR Standard Proximal Plate and Callos Bone Void Filler Case Study

Patient History: A 56-year-old left hand dominant female slipped on ice on the sidewalk and fell onto
her left wrist 6 weeks prior to presentation. She sustained an extra-articular distal radius fracture that was initially casted after closed reduction at an outside facility. The fracture collapsed while in the cast with recurrence of the initial deformity and the patient presented for a second opinion. In addition to the “dinner-fork” deformity, her radiographs demonstrated 12 mm shortening and 30 degrees of dorsal angulation of the distal radius. The patient was offered surgery for reduction and fixation of the fracture. It was anticipated that there would be a metaphyseal void in the radius after correction of the deformity.