[Results of surgically treated scaphoid pseudarthrosis using the Matti-Russe method].

For the treatment of scaphoid pseudarthrosis which is recognized sufficiently soon after an accident and where are no arthritic changes, the best method is that described by Matti-Russe; in our series we found healing in 95%. By grafting an autologous cortico-cancellous bone from the ilium we had no failures when we diagnosed and operated on the pseudarthrosis in the first five years after injury. We, therefore, now operate also on fractures with delayed union. The resection of the radial styloid process in combination with the Matti-Russe method has shown no advantages, and we have abandoned this modification.