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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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Autores principales: KC, Kapil Mani, Acharya, Parimal, Pangeni, Bandhu Ram, Niroula, Ankit, KC, Amuda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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
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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.
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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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