Tibial plateau fractures: from fixation to long-term outcomes
About this collection
This free collection brings together medpresso materials on tibial plateau fractures in a suggested order: a module from SONA Global and the Harvard Global Orthopaedics Collaborative (HGOC), a scientific article review, a clinical case and two reviews from the guidelines section. The path moves from an overview of the injury and its surgical fixation through bone defect filling and a treated bicondylar fracture to the complications of surgery and the management of knee stiffness. Each item is a separate material on the platform: open it from the list below. Certificates, where available, are issued for each item.
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Complex Lower Extremity Trauma – Tibial Plateau Fractures
(Module · Free)
Start here: three video lectures from the SONA Global Complex Lower Extremity Trauma conference (an overview of tibial plateau fractures, medial plateau fractures and minimally invasive fixation), a review of a multicentre study on the Cal-Cemex bone substitute for metaphyseal defects, and a self-assessment test. -
Application of Cal-Cemex bone substitute in fractures of the proximal meta-epiphysis of the tibia
(Article review · Free)
Prefer reading? A review of the multicentre study published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research in 2023 (45 displaced fractures, Schatzker types II–VI): after reduction and internal fixation, metaphyseal defects were filled with Cal-Cemex, a hybrid β-TCP and PMMA bone substitute, with clinical, radiographic and CT follow-up to 1 year. It is the same study as the article review in the module. -
Tibia proximal metaepiphysis bicondylar fracture
(Clinical case · Free)
The principles applied: a 57-year-old woman with a bicondylar Schatzker type V fracture after a fall on the stairs, treated by open reduction through two approaches, defect filling with Cal-Cemex and two condylar plates, with knee motion from day 1, full weight bearing at 3 weeks and a pain-free knee (range of motion 0–100°) at 20 months. -
Complications of the surgical treatment of fractures of the tibial plateau: prevalence, causes, and management
(Guideline · Free)
What can go wrong after surgery: an EFORT Open Reviews 2022 review of knee stiffness, infection, malunion, non-union, post-traumatic osteoarthritis and instability, with the thresholds for correction (joint collapse over 5 mm, malalignment over 5°, tibial slope change over 10°) and when to choose osteotomy or knee arthroplasty. -
How to manage a native stiff knee
(Guideline · Free)
Stiffness in detail: an EFORT Open Reviews 2024 review of the native stiff knee, from its definition (total range of motion below 50°) and risk factors, including fractures and previous surgery, to manipulation under anaesthesia, arthroscopic or open release and total knee arthroplasty.
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