Experiment in the treatment of lateral dislocation with osteochondral fracture of the patellae.

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This report presents twelve cases concerning knees of which two cases are male and ten female. An average age of the patients was 15 years old. They rangeed from 11 to 17 one case who was a 37-year-old man.Among the twelve cases of displaced fractures five cases showed simple fractures and seven cases were associated with the fracture of the lateral condyle of the femur.All underwent operation consisting of medial plication and lateral release. Two cases were performed in the manner of tibial tubercle plasty of anteromedial advancement. Two females had a recurrence of symptoms after the operation; however, reoperation was done with good clinical results. Nine cases corresponded to our follow-up investigation, of which two cases were male and seven were female.Accordingly from an objective viewpoint most of the patients progressed very well except for subjective complaints of anxiety in three cases and patella baja in three other cases.
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