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One hundred and\u00a0six consecutively recruited patients with displaced midshaft clavicular fractures, who were treated with plate fixation and had a minimum follow-up of 6\u2009months, were matched on gender, age, fracture grading, energy of injury, and fracture location. The resulting groups included 53 ALCP-treated fractures and 53 matched controls treated with RLCPs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      During a mean follow-up of 20.5\u2009months, there were no implant deformities in the ALCP group whereas the RLCP group had 6 patients (11.3%,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.012) with implant deformities (5 occurrences of plate bending with fracture union, and 1 plate breakage with nonunion). Despite the higher rate of plate deformities in the RLCP group, there were no statistically significant differences in number of patients recovering full shoulder range of motion (ALCP 90.6%, RLCP 88.7%,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.751), incidence of rest pain (ALCP 13.2%, RLCP 9.4%,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.542), or implant removals (ALCP 49.1%, RLCP 56.6%,\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.439).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>ALCPs may be superior to RLCPs in terms of implant stability but appear to produce similar clinical results.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12891-020-03445-5","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,6,29]],"date-time":"2020-06-29T13:02:57Z","timestamp":1593435777000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Comparison of radiological and clinical outcomes, complications, and implant removals in anatomically pre-contoured clavicle plates versus reconstruction plates \u2013 a propensity score matched retrospective cohort study of 106 patients"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Christian X.","family":"Fang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ruiping","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dennis K. 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