Knee Rheumatoid Arthritis With Lateral Tibial Plateau and Tibial Stress Fractures Managed With One-Stage Knee Joint Replacement

Knee Rheumatoid Arthritis With Lateral Tibial Plateau and Tibial Stress Fractures Managed With One-Stage Knee Joint Replacement

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic systemic disease that causes progressive joint damage, bony defects, and ligament imbalance. These sequelae of RA present major difficulties to surgeons during hip or knee arthroplasty. The presence of coexistent periarticular fractures adds to these difficulti...

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Main Authors: Wael Samir Osman, MD, Ahmed Saeed Younis, MSc, Jacqueline Thompson, MPH, MSc, Amr Amal Amin, MD, Mahmoud El-sebai, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-09-01
Series:Arthroplasty Today
Subjects:
Rheumatoid arthritis
Stress fracture
Tibial plateau fracture
Joint replacement
Case report
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352344120301060

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