A systematic review of the influence of burying or not burying Kirschner wires on infection rates following fixation of upper extremity fractures

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital, Praed St, London, W2 1NY, UK.
• ² Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital, Praed St, London, W2 1NY, UK; Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FY, UK. Electronic address: abhilash.jain@kennedy.ox.ac.uk.
• ³ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London, NW3 2QG, UK.
• ⁴ St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, CM3 7ET, UK.
• ⁵ Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary's Hospital, Praed St, London, W2 1NY, UK; Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Roosevelt Drive, Oxford, OX3 7FY, UK.