To evaluate the clinical and radiological outcome of internal fixation of distal end of femur fracture using locking compression plate

Commonly occurs in elderly patients following a trivial fall or in young adults following a high velocity trauma due to RTA.

Treatment of distal femur fracture has been a great challenge with a variety of treatment modalities available and yet unpredictable outcomes. Surgical treatment has become the favourable choice after improvement in surgical techniques and implants.

Materials and Method: A prospective study on 22 patients was conducted between the year august 2017-Dec 2018 with age group between 20-70 years with a mean age of 50, irrespective of sex.

The patients were treated with internal fixation using locking compression plate and followed up at 6 months post-operatively.

The clinical outcomes were evaluated using Neers scoring system at 6 months post-operatively.

Result and Observation: The result showed that sixteen patients had excellent results, four had good, one had fair and one failure.

Conclusion: The treatment of distal femur fracture (AO type A, B and C) with a single LCP using direct lateral approach, good to excellent results were achieved in majority of the cases will full weight bearing to start as early as 18.03 weeks (average) and radiological union by 16 weeks (average) and therefore is our current choice for most AO/OTA type A, B and C fractures of distal femur requiring plate Osteosynthesis.