Prospective Five-Point Serial Assessment of Radiological and Functional Outcome Dissociation After Locking Plate Fixation of Proximal Tibial Fractures
Ovais Mehboob, Rabi R Prasad, Amit M Hegde, Hitesh Garg, Manu Gautam, Himanshu Gupta, Anshul Tripathi, Ravi Shankar · 2026
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Ovais Mehboob and co-authors tracked thirty-two patients whose shinbone fractures near the knee were fixed with locking plates fitted to each fracture pattern. Enrolled over eight months in 2023, patients were scored five times, from before surgery to six months. Radiological scores judged how well the joint surface was restored, while clinical scores covered pain, walking, and stability.
By six months every patient had reached a good or excellent radiological grade, and imaging scores had climbed steeply. Functional recovery told a slower story: about forty-four percent reached a good or excellent clinical grade, and none of the thirteen with excellent X-rays earned an excellent functional grade. These score types showed no correlation at six months. The authors caution that function after such fractures often keeps improving for one to two years, so the gap should narrow, and larger multi-centre studies must confirm it.
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| CREATOR | Ovais Mehboob, Rabi R Prasad, Amit M Hegde, Hitesh Garg, Manu Gautam, Himanshu Gupta, Anshul Tripathi, Ravi Shankar |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |