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A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient
INTRODUCTION: Hoffa fracture is a type of rare tangential supracondylar distal femoral fracture. The most common mechanism of this fracture injury is high energy trauma. In some cases, its poor visibility on X-rays makes its diagnosis difficult and needs more than routine X-rays. Treatment methods i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7819821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33482448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2021.01.032 |
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author | Noufal, Abdullah Meda, Muhammad Rafat Aboujaib, Muhammed Fayez |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Hoffa fracture is a type of rare tangential supracondylar distal femoral fracture. The most common mechanism of this fracture injury is high energy trauma. In some cases, its poor visibility on X-rays makes its diagnosis difficult and needs more than routine X-rays. Treatment methods include conventional ORIF, or arthroscopy-assisted fixation as a more challenging method. CASE REPORT: We present a case of a young female patient who sustained a low energy injury trauma to her left knee, which caused in a small minimally displaced lateral unicondylar Hoffa fracture. DISCUSSION: Although it needs more experience and special tools, arthroscopy-assisted fixation of Hoffa fracture provides a good method of treatment, and it has many advantages over open method. CONCLUSION: Our aim here is to confirm that Hoffa fracture may occur even with low energy knee trauma, and that arthroscopy-assisted fixation is a successful, applicable and alternative method to ORIF for small and thin osteochondral fragments, and could provide good stability and union even when using only one screw for fixation. |
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spelling | pubmed-78198212021-01-29 A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient Noufal, Abdullah Meda, Muhammad Rafat Aboujaib, Muhammed Fayez Int J Surg Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Hoffa fracture is a type of rare tangential supracondylar distal femoral fracture. The most common mechanism of this fracture injury is high energy trauma. In some cases, its poor visibility on X-rays makes its diagnosis difficult and needs more than routine X-rays. Treatment methods include conventional ORIF, or arthroscopy-assisted fixation as a more challenging method. CASE REPORT: We present a case of a young female patient who sustained a low energy injury trauma to her left knee, which caused in a small minimally displaced lateral unicondylar Hoffa fracture. DISCUSSION: Although it needs more experience and special tools, arthroscopy-assisted fixation of Hoffa fracture provides a good method of treatment, and it has many advantages over open method. CONCLUSION: Our aim here is to confirm that Hoffa fracture may occur even with low energy knee trauma, and that arthroscopy-assisted fixation is a successful, applicable and alternative method to ORIF for small and thin osteochondral fragments, and could provide good stability and union even when using only one screw for fixation. Elsevier 2021-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7819821/ /pubmed/33482448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2021.01.032 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Noufal, Abdullah Meda, Muhammad Rafat Aboujaib, Muhammed Fayez A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient |
title | A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient |
title_full | A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient |
title_fullStr | A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient |
title_full_unstemmed | A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient |
title_short | A case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small Hoffa fracture in a young patient |
title_sort | case report of an arthroscopic-assisted fixation of a small hoffa fracture in a young patient |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7819821/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33482448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2021.01.032 |
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