APPLICATION OF JESS OR KIRSCHNER’S WIRES IN CLOSED FRACTURES OF HAND

Aditi Ranaut and *Narinder Singh

ABSTRACT

The human hand is the most vulnerable part of the body prone to a variety of injuries especially in industries, agricultural fields and increased road traffic accidents resulting in high incidence of phalangeal and metacarpal fractures particularly mutilating hand injuries, open fractures, comminuted fractures and intra-articular fractures. Herein we report two case studies where closed fractures of the hand managed with external and internal fixators and purpose of the case report is to evaluate the overall functional outcome of hand treated with Joshi’s external stabilization system (JESS) for external fixation and kirschner’s wires for internal fixation of closed metacarpal and phalangeal fractures.

Keywords: Joshi’s external stabilization system, Kirschner’s wire, Metacarpophalangeal joint.