Comparison of lateral entry and crossed entry pinning for pediatric supracondylar humerus fractures: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

[4], with 138 patients, compared two crossed K-wire techniques and not crossed K-wires with diverging lateral K-wires as all other included studies. [...]the 2 former studies should have been excluded, limiting the meta-analysis to 10 studies with 743 patients. [...]considering that Zhao et at [1] reported that the quality of the included studies was generally poor, the fact that Skaggs et al. Range of movement Zhao H, Xu S, Liu G, Zhao J, Wu S, Peng L. Comparison of lateral entry and crossed entry pinning for pediatric supracondylar humerus fractures: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.