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Letter to the Editor| Volume 50, ISSUE 3, P818-819, March 2019

The articular and non-articular proportion in segment classification of tibial plateau fractures

  • Rujan Tuladhar
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    The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yangpu Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200090, People’s Republic of China
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  • Sun-Jun Hu
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    The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yangpu Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200090, People’s Republic of China
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  • Shi-Min Chang
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    Corresponding author: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yangpu Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, 450 Tengyue Road, Shanghai, 200090, People’s Republic of China.
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    The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yangpu Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200090, People’s Republic of China
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Published:January 14, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.injury.2019.01.021
      Tibial plateau fracture is a hot topic in orthopaedic traumatology in recent years worldwide. Tibial plateau fracture patterns can be classified by its different characteristics, including the anatomic involvement (medial/lateral condyle, column, quadrant, segment), fracture type (split/depression), mechanism (varus/valgus, axial/rotational, flexion/extension, hyper-flexion/hyper-extension,), soft tissue injury (meniscus, ligaments, neurovascular structures), and fracture-subluxation/dislocation of the knee. Integrated classification combines the above features to provide full description of fracture patterns and injury degrees has been attempted, but found to be too complicated to use in clinical practice.
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