Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Clinical outcome of distal femur fracture treated by locking condylar buttress plate

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Dr. Mandeep G, Dr. Moulik Shah

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Aim: to evaluate the results of fracture lower end of femur, treated by close/open reduction and internal fixation using locking compression plate. Materials and Methods: In this study 31 patients with closed fracture lower end of femur (32 distal femur fractures) were studied. All the cases were treated at Akash medical college(devanahalli), between 20017 -2021 at our institution and followed for a minimum of 6 months. The method used for fracture fixation was closed or open reduction and internal fixation with locking compression plate. Results: All 31 cases studied in our series were closed. 20 patients were males and 11 patients were females. The median age was 48.6 years ranging from 18-84 years. In our study average time for union was (14 weeks and max 22 weeks) and 14 patients showed excellent result,14 Patients showed satisfactory outcome, 3 unsatisfactory and 1 patient showed failure (excellent and satisfactory constituted about 87.5%)

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