Juxtra Articular Compound Fractures of the Tibia Managed by Percutaneous Anatomical Locked Plating- Feasibility in Indian Rural Population

• Author Details:   
• SPS Gill
• Manish Raj
• Pulkesh Singh
• Dinesh Kumar
• Jasveer Singh
• Prateek Rastogi

Introduction: Compound fracture of the tibia is the one of the most common injury encountered by orthopaedic surgeon these days. Diaphyseal compound fractures are well managed by primary interlocking nails with good to excellent results. Metaphyseal juxtraarticular and intraarticular compound fractures of upper and lower end of tibia are not good indication for intramedullary nails due to limitation of short proximal and distal fragment and marked communition at these areas, also mostly intra articular extensions. Till now these fractures were mostly managed by External fixators or rind fixators. Primary conventional open plating in compound fracture is not a preferred method of management till now due to fear of infection and soft tissue complications and risk of plate exposure. We managed these fractures by minimally invasive plating using locked plate and result evaluated.