From wheelchair to walking: First case report of post-electrical burn destruction of patellar ligament with its one-stage reconstruction and restoration of function

From wheelchair to walking: First case report of post-electrical burn destruction of patellar ligament with its one-stage reconstruction and restoration of function

Electrical burn injury causing bilateral patellar ligament destruction leading to complete loss of knee extension is a very rare injury. In such situation, surgical repair or reconstruction of the patellar ligament becomes necessary to restore knee functions. Here, we present such a case of an 8-yea...

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Main Authors: Sandip Kanti Basu, Jayanta Bain, Bijay Kumar Majumdar, Debarati Chattopadhyay, Debasis Baitalik, Yatindra Kumar Dewangan, Debtanu Bhattacharya, Pritha Rakshit, Vivek Gupta, Ashwani Kumar, Rathindra Nath Haldar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2017-01-01
Series:Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery
Subjects:
electrical burn
patellar ligament
semitendinosus tendon graft
Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/ijps.IJPS_200_16

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