Benefits of either operative or non-operative treatment for perilunate dislocation and fracture dislocations.

Arch Bone Joint Surg. 2014;2(1): 84-85. http://abjs.mums.ac.ir Dear Editor We read the article by Bagheri et al with great interest (1). We found the study interesting and comprehensive as four groups of patients, including operative and nonoperative in either pure dislocation or fracture dislocation, were compared in terms of Mayo wrist score, Grip strength, range of motion and radiographic parameters. It seems that the results were comparable to studies by Capo, Chou, Laporte, Malovic, Kremer, Forli and Lutz (Table 1) (2-8). In the studies listed above, all the patients were treated by operative fixation and none of them reported any experience with non-operative treatment (2-8). Their operative results are almost similar to Bagheri’s operative results in which they demonstrated better outcomes in terms of motion and Mayo score than the LETTER TO THE EDITOR