Proximal tibial fracture following total knee arthroplasty.
case_report · Level V
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- Also identified by DOI 10.2519/jospt.2011.0418.
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Abstract
The patient was a 74-year-old man, with a history of total knee arthoplasty 14 years earlier, after having sustained a pathological fracture of the proximal diaphysis of the left tibia following a fall. Given the unstable nature of the fracture and the severe osteolysis noted below the total knee arthroplasty, surgical management 1 day after the fall entailed packing cancellous bone graft into the defect and realigning the fracture.
Medical subject headings
- Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee
- Exercise Therapy
- Tibial Fractures
Anatomy
- knee
- tibia