title: Pseudoarthrosis of medial tibial plateau fracture----role of alignment procedure.
abstract: Nonunion in tibial plateau fractures is very rare. Limited literature is available on Pubmed search on intraarticular tibial nonunion. Most of the cases reported have been following failed surgical treatment and none was neglected fractures. Three patients of isolated and neglected medial tibial plateau nonunion with almost similar demographic profile are reported in this paper. All the three patients were managed by minimally invasive compression fixation using lag screws supplemented with limb realignment procedure of high tibial osteotomy. We discussed the injury mechanism, management and rehabilitation in such cases and reviewed the available literature regarding such a presentation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Traumatology, Paraplegia and Rehabilitation, Pandit BD Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak 124001, Haryana, India.
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Devgan
authors.forename: Pradeep
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kamboj
authors.forename: Vinay
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Narender-K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Magu
authors.forename: Rajesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rohilla
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001863:Bone Screws; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal / Q000379:methods*; D017102:Fracture Healing; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010027:Osteotomy; D011542:Pseudarthrosis / Q000601:surgery*; D013978:Tibial Fractures / Q000601:surgery*