The present is a retrospective transversal work of research that evaluates the treatment of intra-articular distal radius fractures carried out at the Central Military Hospital between the years 2000 y 2003.Out of a total of 586 patients that entered the hospital through the emergency entrance with a diagnosis of distal radio fractures, 196 were selected that presented a total of 203 articular fractures, of which after studying the medical histories and radiographic plates, 148 cases completed the requirements of the chart of recollection of data being this the final population of our study.The greatest incidence is on its majority by mechanisms of high energy was that of the fractures Melone II type (54.1%), followed by those of Melone IV type (22.3%) and the remaining 20% in a varied distribution between those of Melone III and Melone I types. Of the total of cases studied, 77% of the ...