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Arch Orthop Trauma Surg · Oct 2009
Case ReportsNew technique for knee flexion contracture with patella infera using patellar tendon reconstruction combined with anterior capsular shift: a case report.
- Shinro Takai, Naoya Shimazaki, Nobuyuki Yoshino, Nobuyoshi Watanabe, Noriki Nakachi, Makoto Kobayashi, and Takashi Matsusita.
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo 173-8605, Japan. takai@kta.att.ne.jp
- Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2009 Oct 1; 129 (10): 138313861383-6.
AbstractA 24-year-old male presented with an open fracture of the left patella (Gustilo-Anderson grade III-A) and fracture of the left femoral lateral condyle, and subsequent patella alta suggesting rupture of the left patellar tendon. This initial injury was treated 6 months earlier in another hospital. He was referred because of limited knee motion and radiographs showed severe patella infera. By means of a combination of a contralateral BTB graft and soft tissue repair named anterior capsular shift, the knee contracture with patella infera was resolved successfully.
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