The floating knee—Outcome following surgical management
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The floating knee: epidemiology, prognostic indicators & outcome following surgical management
BACKGROUND Floating Knee injuries are complex injuries. The type of fractures, soft tissue and associated injuries make this a challenging problem to manage. We present the outcome of these injuries after surgical management. METHODS 29 patients with floating knee injuries were managed over a 3 year period. This was a prospective study were both fractures of the floating knee injury were surg...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Injury Extra
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1572-3461
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.11.349