The Floating Knee: About 13 Cases and Review of the Literature
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- 1. Department of Orthopedic and Traumatological Surgery, Ibn Sina Hospital, Rabat, Morocco
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The floating knee is a traumatic pathology which compromises the functional future of the inferior member. This results in a free articulation between the two fracture sites at the level of the same lower limb. The objective of our work is to study the lesional aspects of floating knees, analyze the therapies results and thus assess the postoperative outcome and prognosis of these patients. For that, we conducted a retrospective study including all patients operated for floating knee in the Department of Traumato-Orthopedics of CHU Ibn Sina of Rabat for a period of 21 months from February 2020 to November 2021. The average age of our patients was 29 years old with 92% male predominance. Series had 70.5% stage I of Fraser Classification, 13% type IIa, 11.7% type IIb and 4.8% type IIc, The floating knee was in the context of a severe polytrauma in 14% of cases. Intramedullary nailing was the most adopted method for the femur (72.22%) and the tibia (66.66%).
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