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Tibial Plateau Schatzker V/VI Treated in Ex Fix/Circular Frame

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Fractures of the Tibia

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The patient is an 18-year-old female with no past medical history other than borderline mental retardation who presents after an urban all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident where she was thrown from the vehicle. On initial evaluation in the trauma bay, she was noted to have a 15 × 6 cm wound over her anteromedial leg, with significant degloving over the tibia. She was found to have a Schatzker VI tibial plateau fracture with large (Gustilo Anderson IIIB) metadiaphyseal butterfly fragment (Fig. 6.1). She also was found to have a nondisplaced medial malleolus fracture on the ipsilateral side.

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    James Lachman MD & Saqib Rehman MD

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  1. NYU Langone Medical Center Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, New York, USA

    Nirmal C. Tejwani

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Lachman, J., Rehman, S. (2016). Tibial Plateau Schatzker V/VI Treated in Ex Fix/Circular Frame. In: Tejwani, N. (eds) Fractures of the Tibia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21774-1_6

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