Locked Plates Combined With Minimally Invasive Insertion Technique for the Treatment of Periprosthetic Supracondylar Femur Fractures Above a Total Knee Arthroplasty

M. Ricci, William; Loftus, Timothy; Cox, Christopher; Borrelli, Joseph

doi:10.1097/00005131-200603000-00005

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Locked Plates Combined With Minimally Invasive Insertion Technique for the Treatment of Periprosthetic Supracondylar Femur Fractures Above a Total Knee Arthroplasty

Published in Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma • Mar 1, 2006

Authors:

William M. Ricci

Timothy Loftus

Christopher Cox

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: New locked plate devices offer theoretical advantages for the treatment of supracondylar femur fractures associated with a total knee arthroplasty (TKA). These devices also can be inserted with relative ease by using minimally invasive techniques, provide a fixed angle construct, and impr...

Subject

Medicine

Periprosthetic

Surgery

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