Abstract
We evaluated the results of surgical treatment performed for patellar fractures in forty three patients. Twenty seven patients were men, and sixteen were women. The mean age of the patients was forty eight years (range; 15 to 84). The cause of injuries were slip in twenty patients, traffic accident in fifteen, fall in six and others in two. Twenty seven patients were fixed with double circumferential wiring (DCW), six were fixed with tension band wiring (TBW), seven were fixed with DCW and TBW, and four with others. Clinical results were assessed according to the scale of Watanabe.
Bone union was achieved in all cases. Twenty three patients showed excellent results, seventeen good, and three fair. Eighteen patients had muscle weakness of the quadriceps.
