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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

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(a) A 40-year-old female patient diagnosed with a comminuted inferior pole fracture of patella which has anterior cortical breakage (white arrow). (b) An intact Anterior cortical split fragment with comminution. (c) The primary fracture line is located on middle level and the secondary fracture line is located on the lower articular boundary of the patella. (d) Intraoperatively, an Inferior pole fragment was separated from the anterior coronal split fragment.

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