Catastrophic Failures of the Tibial Post in a Bicruciate Substituting Total Knee Prosthesis

Failure of the tibial post in a bicruciate substituting total knee prosthesis is a rare but catastrophic complication. The authors report 2 cases of a fracture of the polyethylene tibial post with subsequent episodes of knee subluxation. Prompt recognition and early revision of these complications a...

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Autores principales: Marino, Dominic, Zelinski, Zethariah, Mesko, Daniel, Cochran, Jason
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33937464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2021.03.003
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author Marino, Dominic
Zelinski, Zethariah
Mesko, Daniel
Cochran, Jason
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description Failure of the tibial post in a bicruciate substituting total knee prosthesis is a rare but catastrophic complication. The authors report 2 cases of a fracture of the polyethylene tibial post with subsequent episodes of knee subluxation. Prompt recognition and early revision of these complications are associated with a favorable early outcome.
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spelling pubmed-80793332021-04-29 Catastrophic Failures of the Tibial Post in a Bicruciate Substituting Total Knee Prosthesis Marino, Dominic Zelinski, Zethariah Mesko, Daniel Cochran, Jason Arthroplast Today Case Report Failure of the tibial post in a bicruciate substituting total knee prosthesis is a rare but catastrophic complication. The authors report 2 cases of a fracture of the polyethylene tibial post with subsequent episodes of knee subluxation. Prompt recognition and early revision of these complications are associated with a favorable early outcome. Elsevier 2021-04-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8079333/ /pubmed/33937464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2021.03.003 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://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/).
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Catastrophic Failures of the Tibial Post in a Bicruciate Substituting Total Knee Prosthesis
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title_full Catastrophic Failures of the Tibial Post in a Bicruciate Substituting Total Knee Prosthesis
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title_short Catastrophic Failures of the Tibial Post in a Bicruciate Substituting Total Knee Prosthesis
title_sort catastrophic failures of the tibial post in a bicruciate substituting total knee prosthesis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8079333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33937464
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artd.2021.03.003
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