An unclassified tibial plateau fracture: Reverse Schatzker type IV.

ABSTRACT: The most commonly accepted system of classification for tibia plateau fractures is that of Schatzker. Increasingly, both high energy injuries and atypical osteoporotic fragility failures have led to more complex, unusual and previously undescribed fracture patterns being recognized. We present a case of a patient with a previously unreported pattern of tibia plateau fracture and knee dislocation. We highlight the challenges confronted and present the management and the outcomes of his injury. A 28-year old male motorcyclist was involved in a head on collision with a truck and was transferred by helicopter to our level 1 major trauma centre emergency department. His injuries were a circumferential degloving injury to his left leg and a right lateral tibial plateau fracture/knee dislocation.

SUBMITTER: Yeoh T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6085195 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature