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Traumatic injuries of the distal femoral physis. Retrospective study on 151 cases.
Injury 2002 April
This is a retrospective study on a series of 151 injuries involving the distal femoral physis. The average age at the time of injury was 12.3 years. Patients were followed for an average of 8.2 years. The complications encountered were not insignificant and the satisfactory results were relatively low (64.9%). The juvenile age group was the most affected with complications. Salter-Harris type II injuries predominated (43.0%) and they did not have a good prognosis as previously suggested. Symptomatic knee ligamentous laxity was found in 12 patients (7.9%). Compartment syndrome is a devastating complication that occurred in 2 cases (1.3%). We stress the point that a child with a physeal injury of the distal femur should be followed for several years after injury and preferably until skeletal maturity. The surgeon must have high index of suspicious for compartment syndrome. Physeal injuries of the distal femur and in particular Salter and Harris type II should be reduced anatomically and fixed well. Whether this should be achieved by closed or opened means, requires a controlled prospective study to provide a confident answer.
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