title: Complications after tibia plateau fracture surgery.
abstract: High-energy tibial plateau fractures are often the result of blunt trauma and are associated with severe soft-tissue injury. Fixation techniques demand considerable surgical skill and mature judgment. The available surgical options do not always guarantee a favourable outcome. Operative treatment includes internal and external fixation, hybrid fixation and arthroscopically assisted techniques. Operative management of high-energy fractures remains difficult and challenging and may be associated with serious complications, such as knee stiffness, ankylosis, deep infection, post-traumatic arthritis, malunion and nonunion. Prevention of the complications can optimise the clinical outcome in these patients.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Orthopaedics, Athens University Medical School, 4 Christovassili Street, Neo Psychikon, Athens, Greece. pjp@hol.gr
authors.forename: Panayiotis J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Papagelopoulos
authors.forename: Antonios A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Partsinevelos
authors.forename: George S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Themistocleous
authors.forename: Andreas F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Mavrogenis
authors.forename: Demetrios S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Korres
authors.forename: Panayotis N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Soucacos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000844:Ankylosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D001168:Arthritis / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000379:methods*; D017759:Fractures, Malunited / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D005599:Fractures, Ununited / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D007593:Joint Instability / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D007719:Knee Joint; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000517:prevention & control; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery