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Comment
. 2016 Mar;474(3):857-60.
doi: 10.1007/s11999-015-4654-6. Epub 2015 Dec 18.

Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Surgical Technique: Tscherne-Johnson Extensile Approach for Tibial Plateau Fractures

Eric Egan Johnson  1
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Reply to the Letter to the Editor: Surgical Technique: Tscherne-Johnson Extensile Approach for Tibial Plateau Fractures

Eric Egan Johnson. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2016 Mar.
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Figures

Fig. 1A–B
Fig. 1A–B
(A) Anteroposterior and (B) lateral radiographs of a highly comminuted globally fractured right tibial plateau is shown.
Fig. 2A–B
Fig. 2A–B
(A) Three-dimensional reconstructed images of the complex fracture pattern of involvement of the anterolateral, posterocentral and (B) complete posterior plateau involvement. Gravity traction cannot work effectively on the complex global fracture depression.
Fig. 3A–B
Fig. 3A–B
(A) Anteroposterior and (B) lateral radiographs of healed plateau fracture treated with Tscherne-Johnson approach is shown using anterolateral and posteromedial incisions.
Fig. 4
Fig. 4
Intraoperative AP fluoroscopic view of the effect of bilateral medial, and lateral transarticular distractors showing amount of unloading of the femur off the tibial plateau. This is not achieved to any degree with gravity traction.
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