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Posterior buttress plate with locking compression plate for Hoffa fracture

Tomonori Tetsunaga1, Toru Sato, Naofumi Shiota

  • 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Okayama Medical Center, 1711-1 Tamasu, Kitaku, Okayama, 701-1192, Japan, tomonori_t31@yahoo.co.jp.

Journal of Orthopaedic Science : Official Journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
|June 5, 2013
PubMed
Summary

This study introduces a novel posterior buttress plate technique for treating Hoffa fractures, improving stability and enabling faster patient recovery and return to normal activities.

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