title: Injury to neurovascular structures with insertion of traction pins around the knee.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Identify risk to neurovascular structures around the knee with placement of skeletal traction pins.
  
  
  METHODS
  Kirchner wires were inserted into cadaveric limbs followed by layer dissecting of each leg. Correlations between weight, height, BMI, and distance were determined after calculating the average distance with deviation between each anatomic structure and the Kirschner wire.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Insertion of traction pins around the knee did not result in injury to neurovascular structures. Both weight and BMI positively correlated with distance between implants and neurovascular structure. Data collected suggests similar trends for all other anatomic structures.
authors.affiliation: Jason Lowe and Jamie Rister Department of Orthopaedics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
authors.forename: Jason A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lowe
authors.affiliation: Jonathan Eastman Department of Orthopaedics, University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.
authors.forename: Jamie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rister
authors.affiliation: Jonathan Friend Department of Anatomy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eastman
authors.affiliation: Jonathan Eastman Department of Orthopaedics, University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Freind
keywords: Femur; Iatrogenic damage; Tibia; Traction pin