Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis

The simultaneous management of tibial shaft fractures and post-traumatic ankle arthritis with ankle pain as the chief complaint can be challenging. Herein, we present a case managed with closed reduction, internal fixation, and tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis using a retrograde femoral nail. The pati...

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Autores principales: Alzahrani, Abdullah, Alshehri, Ali, Alsheikh, Khalid, Alzahrani, Faisal, Alshaya, Rand A, Ababtain, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Orthopedics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721556
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33025
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author Alzahrani, Abdullah
Alshehri, Ali
Alsheikh, Khalid
Alzahrani, Faisal
Alshaya, Rand A
Ababtain, Ibrahim
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description The simultaneous management of tibial shaft fractures and post-traumatic ankle arthritis with ankle pain as the chief complaint can be challenging. Herein, we present a case managed with closed reduction, internal fixation, and tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis using a retrograde femoral nail. The patient was able to actively ambulate with full weight bearing and no pain approximately three months after the procedure. Patient consent for this case report was obtained. 
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spelling pubmed-98803542023-01-30 Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis Alzahrani, Abdullah Alshehri, Ali Alsheikh, Khalid Alzahrani, Faisal Alshaya, Rand A Ababtain, Ibrahim Cureus Orthopedics The simultaneous management of tibial shaft fractures and post-traumatic ankle arthritis with ankle pain as the chief complaint can be challenging. Herein, we present a case managed with closed reduction, internal fixation, and tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis using a retrograde femoral nail. The patient was able to actively ambulate with full weight bearing and no pain approximately three months after the procedure. Patient consent for this case report was obtained.  Cureus 2022-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9880354/ /pubmed/36721556 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33025 Text en Copyright © 2022, Alzahrani et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Alzahrani, Abdullah
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Alsheikh, Khalid
Alzahrani, Faisal
Alshaya, Rand A
Ababtain, Ibrahim
Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis
title Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis
title_full Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis
title_fullStr Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis
title_full_unstemmed Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis
title_short Simultaneous Surgical Management of Acute Tibial Shaft Fracture and Post-traumatic Ankle Arthritis
title_sort simultaneous surgical management of acute tibial shaft fracture and post-traumatic ankle arthritis
topic Orthopedics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9880354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721556
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33025
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