Pathologic Fracture of The Patella Secondary to a Gouty Tophus

Pathologic Fracture of The Patella Secondary to a Gouty Tophus

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Huang Fei
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, No. 98 Hospital of PLA, Huzhou, China

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Gout is a rare cause of patellar fracture, with few documented cases. We report a case of gout tophi in the patella, the severe transverse fracture resulting from minor trauma. The patient was managed by the same treatment principles used for patients with nonpathologic patella fractures. We preformed excising the mass, fixing the bone fragment and filling in bone defect with allograft bone. Union of the fracture was seen at three months follow-up. The patient has recovered completely and returned to his former work after 3 months postoperatively.

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Publication history
Received: Mon 19, Aug 2019
Accepted: Fri 06, Sep 2019
Published: Tue 08, Oct 2019
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© 2023 Huang Fei. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.04.11