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Rev Fac Med UNAM 2015; 58 (6)

Tibial tubercle avulsion: a case report and literature review

Orihuela FVA, Fernández PLJ, Peláez DP

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 18-23
PDF size: 388.73 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Tibial tubercle avulsion is an uncommon disease, usually found during childhood, with direct physis affection, that needs an accurate diagnosis and an optimum treatment in order to avoid growth complications which could have disastrous consequences for the child. Open reduction and internal fixation has been reported as an adequate treatment in most of these injuries; nevertheless, surgery increases the risk upon the injury itself. With an appropriate treatment and rehabilitation this injury tends to have a satisfactory evolution. Considering the low incidence of this pathology, a case report of a 13-year-old boy with a Watson-Jones type III avulsion, a diagnostic-therapeutic approach and the successful evolution for a two-years follow up is described, as well as a literature review.


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