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Tibial fracture after transposition of the tibial tubercle
1Department of Orthopedics, Municipal Hospital Leyenburg, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Acta Orthopaedica Belgica
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Eight weeks after transposition of the tibial tubercle for recurrent subluxation of the patella, the patient sustained a tibial fracture during rope jumping. In spite of consolidation of the osteotomy in the frontal plane, there remained a small gap in the anterior cortex in the transverse plane through which the tibia failed during bending stress.