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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 1 Femur fracture

From: Femoral fracture following knee ligament reconstruction surgery due to an unpredictable complication of bioabsorbable screw fixation: a case report and review of literature

Author

Procedure

Fixation

Time from procedure

Noah et al. [7]

Patellar tendon ACL reconstruction and ITB extra-articular tenodesis

Interference screw

6 months

Ternes et al. [10]

GORE-TEX graft ACL revision

N/A

8 weeks

Wiener and Siliski [11]

Patellar tendon ACL revision

 

7 months

Manktelow et al. [9]

Hamstring tendon ACL reconstruction with extra-articular tenodesis

 

24 months fracture from staple of extra-articular augmentation to intraosseous tunnel

Berg et al. [13]

BPTB ACL reconstruction

 

8 weeks

Radler et al. [8]

ACL reinsertion and LAD. Latter removed after 5 months

6.5 mm cancellous screw

20 months

Mithoefer et al. [14]

Patellar tendon ACL reconstruction

7 × 25 metal interference screw for a 10 mm tunnel

5 months. Fall and hyperextension injury

Wilson et al. [15]

BPTB ACL reconstruction

Interference screw, ? size

9 months, fall

Sheps et al. [12]

Quadrupled ST-G autograft ACL reconstruction

Endoloop button

5 months, head injury, ? fall