The treatment of patellar fracture is considered very important because the fracture involvement of articular surface occurs in most of the cases.
In this series, we experienced 67 cases. of patella fractures from Jan. 1986 to Jun. 1992 at the department of orthopedic surgery, Kyung Hee University.
@ES The results were as follows;
@EN 1. The most fractures occurred in man of 4th decade.
2. The most common cause of fracture was trffic accident, followed by slip down or fall down.
3. Femoral fractures and tibiofibular fractues, spin and humerus fractures were associated in this series.
4. The most of the fracture belongs to either comminuted or transverse fracture and 11 out 67 cases were open fractures.
6. The average duration of immobilization were 6.8 weeks and range of motion of the knee joint at last follow up were from 0.9 to 117 degrees.
7. The end results of fracture treatment were classified excellent, good, faiure by Bostman grading scale. there were 35 cases in excellent, 29 in good, and 3 in failure.
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