Table 4: Gustillo III gunshot fractures.
| Author/Journal | Population/anatomical Segment | Methods of fixation | Results |
| Dar [23]/Ulus Trauma acil Cerrahi Derg 2009 | War fractures by firearms | External Fixation | 0% malunion |
| Olasinde [24]/South African Orthop Journal 2012 | Civilian/Inferior extremities fractures | Delayed Intramedullary Fixation and bone grafting | 15.2% infection |
| Dubravko [25]/J Trauma 1994 | Military/Extremities Fractures | External Fixation | 7.7% osteomyelitis 35% tract pins infection |
| Kaguru [26]/East and Central African Journal of Surgery 2004 | Military/War extremities fractures | External Fixation | 3.2% psudoarthrosis; 16.1% osteitis; 1% tetanus. |
| Dahabra [27]/J Trauma 1994 | Military/Extremities fractures | External Fixation | 23% wound infection; 10% pin tract infection |
| Lerner [28]/Clin Orthop Relat Res 2006 | Military/war lower limbs fractures | Ilizarov External Fixation | 90% good results |
| Possley [29]/J Trauma 2010 | Military/Tibial fractures | External Fixation | 77% successful |
| Amaral [30] Orthop Rel Res 2003 | Civilian/Forearm fractures | External fixation (A) vs. cast (B) | A - 57.1% Satisfactory; B - 58.3% satisfactory. |
| Nikolic [31] Injury 1999 | Military/Subtrochanteric fractures | External fixation (A) versus plaster of Paris (B) | Complications overall: 65%; infection: 15%; malunion: 10%. A-65% (delayed healing and nonunion; B-86.7% (contractures) |