1. Challenging Surgical Treatment of Displaced Articular Tibial Plateau Fractures: Do Early Knee Radiographic Features Have a Predictive Value of the Mid‐Term Clinical Functional Outcomes?
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Elisa Belluzzi, Marisa Gambato, Marta Favero, Giacomo Maso, Carlo Biz, Pietro Ruggieri, Marco Vigo, and Assunta Pozzuoli
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Male ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Deep vein ,Osteoarthritis ,Post‐traumatic osteoarthritis ,Disability Evaluation ,Fracture Fixation, Internal ,0302 clinical medicine ,lcsh:Orthopedic surgery ,Tibial plateau fractures ,Tibial plateau fracture ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Pain Measurement ,030222 orthopedics ,Clinical Article ,Articular fractures ,Trauma center ,Middle Aged ,Open Fracture Reduction ,Treatment Outcome ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Tibial proximal fractures ,Visual analogue scale ,Post-traumatic osteoarthritis ,Open reduction and internal fixation ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Predictive Value of Tests ,Statistical significance ,medicine ,Humans ,Internal fixation ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Radiography ,Tibial Fractures ,lcsh:RD701-811 ,Clinical Articles ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Common peroneal nerve - Abstract
Objective To evaluate mid‐term radiographic and functional outcomes of tibial plateau fracture (TPF) patients treated with the open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) technique and to find predictive factors of clinical outcomes. Methods A retrospective, single‐center study was performed enrolling a consecutive series of patients with diagnosis of TPF. All subjects were treated by ORIF between January 2010 and December 2015 at our level‐1 healthcare trauma center. The inclusion criteria were: age between 18 and 75 years; ORIF technique used for articular TPF, type 41‐B and 41‐C, isolated or with associated injuries. The patients were divided in two groups, according to fracture patterns and compared. Their characteristics, radiographic and clinical outcomes were recorded. Radiographs 12 months after surgery were evaluated for reduction and alignment, and radiographs at 24 months to describe post‐traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA). Functional outcomes were assessed using the visual analog scale (VAS), the Short Form 36 (SF‐36), the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score (KOOS), and the American Knee Society score (AKSS) questionnaires. Return to work and sport activities were also investigated. Univariate and multivariate analysis were performed, and the statistical significance was defined as two‐tailed P
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- 2019