Use of Acu-Loc 2 Wrist Plating System Volar Distal Radius (VDR) Plate for ORIF Revision of Comminuted Distal Radius Articular Fracture Case Study

Randy Bindra, MD, FRACS, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Griffith University School of Medicine and Gold Coast Private Hospital Southport, QLD, Australia. Case Presentation: The patient was a 24-year-old right-handed student who sustained a fracture of his left wrist after a fall down a flight of stairs. After receiving treatment at another hospital, he presented to Dr. Bindra two weeks later with increasing median neuropathy. Radiography showed a volar pin plate applied to the teardrop fragment with no internal fixation of the radial column. The wrist had been stabilized with a spanning external fixator. CT imaging showed impact and depression of the distal radius articular surface with dorsal tilt and loss of articular congruity.