“…In the majority of the studies, the infrapatellar approach was described [4,[7][8][9]). Six studies reported on the suprapatellar approach [4,5,[7][8][9][79][80][81][82][83] and one on the semi-extended technique [66]. There were 17 randomized trials [7, 9, 19, 23, 26, 30, 48, 49, 52, 54, 57, 59-61, 64, 68, 71] of which five compared different methods for tibial nailing [7,9,26,49,71], 14 prospective studies [5,11,14,28,31,34,37,39,46,55,70,72,73,83] and 45 retrospective studies [4, 8, 12, 13, 15-18, 20-22, 24, 25, 27, 29, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38, 40-45, 47, 50, 51, 53, 56, 58, 62, 63, 66, 67, 69, 74, 76, 78-82, 84].…”