Case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy

BACKGROUND: We report a case of hardware failure after distal femoral osteotomy (DFO) with a broken screw pulled out from the locking hole and positioned within the knee joint. CASE PRESENTATION: A 57-year-old man presented to our orthopedic outpatient department with 3-months history of an unusual...

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Autores principales: Lee, Yong Seuk, Lee, Seung Hoon, Lee, Eui Soo, Fong, Teck Siong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6425689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30894158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2505-4
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description BACKGROUND: We report a case of hardware failure after distal femoral osteotomy (DFO) with a broken screw pulled out from the locking hole and positioned within the knee joint. CASE PRESENTATION: A 57-year-old man presented to our orthopedic outpatient department with 3-months history of an unusual painful swelling at the operated area following DFO. The leakage of joint fluid from the penetrated suprapatellar pouch was assumed to be the reason for this complication. CONCLUSIONS: The overall aim of this case report is to provide a lesson to budding surgeons who might experience a similar situation that cannot be easily explained, like the unexpected complication in the present case.
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spelling pubmed-64256892019-04-01 Case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy Lee, Yong Seuk Lee, Seung Hoon Lee, Eui Soo Fong, Teck Siong BMC Musculoskelet Disord Case Report BACKGROUND: We report a case of hardware failure after distal femoral osteotomy (DFO) with a broken screw pulled out from the locking hole and positioned within the knee joint. CASE PRESENTATION: A 57-year-old man presented to our orthopedic outpatient department with 3-months history of an unusual painful swelling at the operated area following DFO. The leakage of joint fluid from the penetrated suprapatellar pouch was assumed to be the reason for this complication. CONCLUSIONS: The overall aim of this case report is to provide a lesson to budding surgeons who might experience a similar situation that cannot be easily explained, like the unexpected complication in the present case. BioMed Central 2019-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6425689/ /pubmed/30894158 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2505-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy
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title_full Case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy
title_fullStr Case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy
title_full_unstemmed Case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy
title_short Case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy
title_sort case report: migration of a broken screw to the knee joint after hardware failure following closing wedge distal femoral osteotomy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6425689/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30894158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2505-4
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