Screw (n = 14) | K-wire (n = 12) | p | |
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Stable Hardware, n (%) | 12 (85.7%) | 10 (83.3%) | 0.867 |
Healed Fracture, n (%) | 13 (92.9%) | 12 (100.0%) | 0.345 |
Hardware Removed | 13 (92.9%) | 11 (91.7%) | 0.910 |
Staged Hardware Removal | 5 (38.5%) | 2 (18.2%) | 0.276 |
Days to Hardware Removal (mean ± SD) | 128.2 ± 37.2 | 78.6 ± 29.7 | 0.002 |