Functional Out Come of Upper Tibial Fractures Treated With Uppertibial Locking and Non Locking Plates - A Retrospective Study from 2006 till 2017-Ten Year Follow Up

AIM- OUR AIM WAS TO STUDY THE FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME OF LOCKING AND NON LOCKING PLATES TREATED FOR UPPER TIBIAL FRACTURES. MATERIALS AND METHODS- ALL PATIENTS REPORTED AT ER AND OPERATED FOR UPPER TIBIAL FRACTURES FROM 2006 TILL2017 WERE TAKEN UP FOR THE STUDY. TOTAL NUMBER OF CASES278. TREATED WITH NONLOCKING PLATES 132 AND LOCKING PLATES WERE 146. ALL PATIENTS WERE CALLED AND OUT OF 278 CASES REPORTED WERE 202, OF WHICH NONLOCKING WAS 82 AND LOCKING WAS 120. ALL PATIENTS WERE ASKED TO FILL THE PROFORMA REGARDING FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME AFTER SURGERY. TYPE OF FRACTURE LINE OF TREATEMENT AND PWB, TWB RETURN TO FUNCTION WERE STUDIED. RESULTS- ONLY PATIENTS TREATED FOR UPPER TIBIAL FRACTURES AND REPORTED TO US WERE TAKEN UP FOR THE STUDY-202 PATIENTS. SCHATZKER CLASSIFICATION WAS USED. OF WHICH TYPE 1-38PTS, TYPE2-38, TYPE3-41, TYPE4-38, TYPE5-24, TYPE6-13. OF WHICHNON LOCKING AND LOCKING WERE CLASSIFIED AS PER TABLE, MALE FEMALE AND SIDE AS TABLE 2, GRADES OF INJURY %AS TABLE 3, WEIGHT BEARING PWB, TWB AS TABLE 4, ROM AS TABLE 5, WERE ANALYSED.