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01.01.2011 | Knee
Thermal necrosis after simultaneous tibial osteotomy and total knee arthroplasty using press-fit extension-stem
Erschienen in: Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy | Ausgabe 1/2011
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One-staged tibial corrective osteotomy and total knee arthroplasty is a challenging but effective treatment for arthritic knees with extra-articular deformity. Although osteocutaneous thermal necrosis is accepted as a complication of intramedullary reamed nailing following long bone fractures, only 15 cases have been reported in the English literature at present. This report illustrates a rare case of thermal necrosis in a patient undergoing tibial corrective osteotomy coincident with long-stemmed total knee arthroplasty. Excessive reaming with a machine reamer is hypothesized as the cause of this serious complication. In this report, we highlight this rare but serious complication after long-stemmed total knee arthroplasty.