Occurence of fresh distal tibia fractures in adults

Author(s): Dr. P Bala Krishna Kanth, Dr. Bandela Venugopal and Dr. Mohammed Abdul Bari

Abstract: This study has been done to know the commonest causes of occurrence of distal tibia fractures in adults. In this study 20 patients of fresh distal tibia fractures in adults studied between June 2017 to may 2018 in mamta general hospital, khammam. Among these 13 were males and 7 were females and RTA was the chief cause of fractures accounting to 70% and left side accounts for 60%. In this study fracture classified according to AO/OTA classification and fracture pattern according to this classification, there was 12 cases of 43A type of injury and 08 cases of 43B type of injuries and 60% cases were grade 1 compound and 40% grade 2 compound fractures. This is comparable with other series like jing-wei zhang et al. reported average age is 43 years, males preponderance about 75%, RTA was the chief cause of injury accounting to 80% and Sven. A.F. tulner et al. reported average age group 43 years, males accounting to 85% and RTA was the major cause. In the present study of 20 cases, 12(60%) patients had excellent outcome, 6(30%) had good outcome, 2(10%) had fair outcome.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22271/ortho.2019.v5.i1h.75