| CASE REPORT |
|
| Year : 2021 | Volume
: 29
| Issue : 2 | Page : 58-60 |
|
|
Bilateral floating knee treated by intramedullary nailing on orthopedic table: A case report with review of literature
Omar Lazrek1, El Mehdi Sabri1, Moncef Boufettal2, Bassir Rida Allah2, Moulay Omar Lamrani1, Mohammed Kharmaz1, Mustapha Mahfoud1, Ahmed Bardouni1, Mohamed Salah Berrada1
1 Department of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery Hospital IBN SINA, Rabat, Morocco
2 Department of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery Hospital IBN SINA, Rabat, Morocco; Laboratory of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine Rabat, University Med V Rabat, Rabat, Morocco
Correspondence Address:
Omar Lazrek
Department of Traumatology and Orthopedic Surgery Hospital IBN SINA, km7 route meekness, villa oumnia, salé, Rabat.
Morocco
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/ijors.ijors_7_18
|
|
|
Floating knee is a lesion entity first described in 1975 by Blake and McBride. Bilateral involvement is exceptional. It occurs for high-energy trauma and is usually accompanied by other potentially life-threatening lesions. Our patient presented a trauma of lower limbs following a motorcycle accident. The clinically evoked diagnosis was confirmed after standard radiological assessment. |
|
|
|
| [FULL TEXT] [PDF]* |
|
 |
|
