[Fracture of the scaphoid bone--surgical treatment, indications, method and results].

In fractures of the scaphoid bone, conservative treatment leads to an osseous consolidation in 95% of all cases. A primary surgical treatment seems justified in case of instability by torsion, tilting, or shifting of the fragments, associated fractures of the same arm, as well as de Quervain dislocation fracture. The different surgical possibilities are described and the complications are compiled in a special study. The question if a recent fracture of the scaphoid bone should be managed by conservative or surgical treatment ist not justified considering the rate of 14.5% of complications, i.e. formation of pseudarthroses, observed after surgery of recent fractures of the scaphoid bone.