Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences

Floating knees: lesional and therapeutic aspects (about 74 cases) by Dr. Bensaka Mohammed in Journal of Clinical Case Reports, Medical Images and Health Sciences  Introduction : The floating knee is a fracture association in the lower limb, as described by Blake and Mcbryde [1] in 1974, to designate ipsilateral fractures of the femur and tibia. It most often occurs in the context of multiple trauma causing associated brain, thoracic and abdominal lesions that endanger the patient's vital prognosis. Management must be multidisciplinary, early and optimal with the essential goals of: stabilization of vital functions in the multiple trauma patient, effective and definitive treatment allowing early recovery, maximum prevention of complications and well-conducted rehabilitation. Our work aims to clarify this traumatic entity by analyzing the lesional and therapeutic aspects and evaluating the functional results of treatment in order to compare them with those in the literature. Materiel...