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From: Clinical outcome of rim-plate-augmented separate vertical wiring with supplementary fixation for the treatment of patellar fracture associated comminuted inferior pole

Figure 3

(a) A 20-year old male patient diagnosed with AO/OTA 34-C3 associated with a comminuted inferior pole fracture. (b) An Anterior cortical split and Posterior articular split fragment with inferior pole comminution. Also, a vertical split fracture on the proximal fragment was identified. (c) The primary horizontal fracture line is located on the middle level of the patella (arrow head), and the secondary fracture line is located on the lower articular boundary of the patella (white arrow). (d) Intraoperatively, those split fragments were separated.

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