Limitation
weakness
The study is limited by a relatively short follow up time. One probable weakness in the study methodology was the lack of uninjured hand radiographies to enable us to exert the distraction force exactly perpendicular to the injured hand articular surface based on each patient’s normal articular indices. This issue could not be addressed, because of the ethical limitation in terms of radiation dose. Thus, we considered the previously studied mean indices of the city population in Vaezi et al. [