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Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report
Breakage of tension band wires, used to treat the patella fracture, is not uncommon several years after the fracture fixation. Broken wires may migrate to surrounding neurovascular structures, other vital organs like heart and may cause potentially fatal complications. Once the wires have been broke...
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Journal of the Nepal Medical Association
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7775020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506405 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5625 |
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author | KC, Kapil Mani Acharya, Parimal Pangeni, Bandhu Ram Niroula, Ankit KC, Amuda |
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description | Breakage of tension band wires, used to treat the patella fracture, is not uncommon several years after the fracture fixation. Broken wires may migrate to surrounding neurovascular structures, other vital organs like heart and may cause potentially fatal complications. Once the wires have been broken, it is very difficult to remove the broken pieces of metal wires. We report a 50 years old male patient with broken tension band wires at multiple sites for patella fracture. The broken wires were removed 20 years after the initial surgery without any undue complications, however patient sustained significant soft tissue damage to remove all the pieces of broken wires that would otherwise have been removed without any undue complications immediately after fracture union. |
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spelling | pubmed-77750202021-01-05 Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report KC, Kapil Mani Acharya, Parimal Pangeni, Bandhu Ram Niroula, Ankit KC, Amuda JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc Case Report Breakage of tension band wires, used to treat the patella fracture, is not uncommon several years after the fracture fixation. Broken wires may migrate to surrounding neurovascular structures, other vital organs like heart and may cause potentially fatal complications. Once the wires have been broken, it is very difficult to remove the broken pieces of metal wires. We report a 50 years old male patient with broken tension band wires at multiple sites for patella fracture. The broken wires were removed 20 years after the initial surgery without any undue complications, however patient sustained significant soft tissue damage to remove all the pieces of broken wires that would otherwise have been removed without any undue complications immediately after fracture union. Journal of the Nepal Medical Association 2020-11 2020-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7775020/ /pubmed/34506405 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5625 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open-Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report KC, Kapil Mani Acharya, Parimal Pangeni, Bandhu Ram Niroula, Ankit KC, Amuda Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report |
title | Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report |
title_full | Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report |
title_fullStr | Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report |
title_full_unstemmed | Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report |
title_short | Multiply Broken Metallic Hardware Removal for United Patella Fracture Applied Twenty Years Before: A Case Report |
title_sort | multiply broken metallic hardware removal for united patella fracture applied twenty years before: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7775020/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34506405 http://dx.doi.org/10.31729/jnma.5625 |
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