1. Conventional palmar approach for plate fixation of the fracture with a fixed angle locking plate.

2. A good option in the treatment of these fractures is the angle stable patella locking plate.

3. No evidence-based criteria for removal of fixed-angle radial locking plate systems are (yet) available.

4. 19 The locking plate appears to have the advantage of reliable fixation in osteoporotic bone which facilitates early mobilisation.