A Clinical Study of the Patella Fractures

Kang, Eung Shick; Park, Byeong Mun; Kim, Hyung Kil

Abstract

Fractures of the pateila Is one of the most important subjects considering the increasing number of such patients Much has been written concerning these fractures during last thirty years or more. In this series, we reviewed 78 fractures of the patella, we could follow up from January 1964 to December 1978. Most of the fractures occurred in man, and occurred In third to forth decades. Traffic accident was the most common cause. Twelve cases were open fractures and most of the fractures were comminuted or transverse type. we treated these 78 cases as followings: 1. Total excision, 8 2. Partial excision, 19 3. Open raduction and Internal flxation, 21 (of these, Circumferential wire loop flxation, 13; Magnuson wire loop fixation, 3; Tension band wiring, 5) 4. Conservative treatment, 30. Average follow-up period was 26.6 weeks and average flexion range of knee at the end of the period was 118.2. The end results of Tension band wiring was much better than those of other methods. It Is considered that the range of motion of the knee jolnt after treatment was Influenced by immobilization period. The shorter the period, the better the result.