Medial Plating of Distal Femoral Fracture with Locking Compression Plate-Proximal Lateral Tibia: Cases' Report.
10.12671/jkfs.2016.29.3.206
- Author:
Se Ang JANG
1
;
Young Soo BYUN
;
In Ho HAN
;
Dongju SHIN
Author Information
1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Daegu Fatima Hospital, Daegu, Korea. aabga@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Distal femur;
Medial plating;
Locking compression plate proximal lateral tibia
- MeSH:
Femoral Fractures*;
Femur;
Fracture Fixation;
Fractures, Comminuted;
Osteotomy;
Plastics;
Tibia*
- From:Journal of the Korean Fracture Society
2016;29(3):206-212
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Generally, lateral plating is used for a comminuted fracture of the distal femur. However, in some cases, it has been shown that using a medial plate is necessary to achieve better outcome. Nevertheless, there are no available anatomical plates that fit either the distal medial femoral condyle or fracture fixation, except for the relatively short plate developed for distal femoral osteotomy. We found that locking compression plate-proximal lateral tibia (LCP-PLT) fits anatomically well for the contour of the ipsilateral medial femoral condyle. Moreover, LCP-PLT has less risk of breaking the thread holes since it rarely needs to be bent. We report a plastic bone model study and two cases of distal femoral fractures fixed with medial plating using LCP-PLT.
