Injury of the knee ligaments associated with ipsilateral femoral shaft fractures

Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia

Marco Tulio Lopes Caldas¹  Dorotea Starling Malheiros¹  Angelo Paulo Lazzaroni¹  Eduardo Axer Avelino¹  Anderson Jose Santos¹ 

关键词: Fractures;    Femur;    Ligaments;    Knee;    Fratura;    Femur;    Ligamentos;    Joelho;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.rboe.2012.11.003

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE:With the objective of identifying the incidence of ipsilateral knee ligament injury, thirty-six patients with femoral shaft fractures were evaluated.METHODS:During the osteosynthesis procedure to repair the femur while under anesthesia, all patients underwent a physical examination and X-ray examination.RESULTS:The most common mechanism of injury observed was motorcycle accidents. Of the thirty-six patients that were studied, eleven patients (30.5%) had a knee ligament injury. Of the eleven patients, 64% had a cruciate ligament injury. The ligament injury was not treated at the time of the osteosynthesis procedure.CONCLUSION:We highlight the difficulty of diagnosis at the time of admission and the need for systematic physical examination before and after surgical treatment of femoral fracture.

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