Safe surgical technique: reconstruction of the sternoclavicular joint for posttraumatic arthritis after posterior
Philip F Stahel1, Brian Barlow, Frances Tepolt
1Department of Orthopaedics, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado, School of Medicine, Denver, CO 80204, USA. philip.stahel@dhha.org.
Patient Safety in Surgery
|January 1, 2014
Abstract:
Posttraumatic sternoclavicular arthritis related to chronic ligamentous instability after posterior sternoclavicular dislocation represents a rare but challenging problem. The current article in the Journal's "Safe Surgical Technique" series describes a successful salvage procedure by partial resection of the medial clavicle and ligamentous reconstruction of the sternoclavicular joint with a figure-of-eight semitendinosus allograft interposition arthroplasty.
