Management and Outcome of a Complex Medial Tibial Plateau Fracture

• DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.cc.19.00626
• Publication Date: 2020-10-19T19:00:08Z
• Authors: Deepak Kumar; Praveen Sodavarapu; Aditya Aggarwal; Aman Hooda; Mohammad Sajid
• Keywords: Tibial plateau fracture; Medial collateral ligament; Avulsion fracture; Road traffic accident

Case: A 26-year-old patient who had a road traffic accident sustained complex knee injury, which resulted in comminuted fracture of the medial tibial plateau, along with undisplaced lateral collateral ligament (LCL) avulsion that was managed surgically rim plating, resulting good outcome after 1-year follow-up Conclusion: The authors present rare case combination axial loading and varus injury to knee, caused splaying plateau an LCL avulsion, single is relatively new method fixation obviated need for 2 separate implants, functional outcome.