Early Revision Surgery for Tibial Plateau Non-union and Mal-union.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although relatively rare, non-unions and mal-unions of tibial plateau fractures present significant challenges for the orthopedic surgeon. With careful pre-operative planning, tibial plateau mal-union or non-union revision surgery with intra-articular and varus opening osteotomies can provides good functional results when performed early (within 1 year) after primary surgical procedure.

Questions/purposes

We present our treatment algorithm for approaching and treating non-union or mal-union of tibial plateau fractures. Our aim is to give surgeons treating these difficult injuries an overview of the pertinent literature as well as describe the challenges and pitfalls we have experienced when treating non-union or mal-union of tibial plateau fractures.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Van Nielen DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5264578 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature