Open AccessBilateral Floating Knee Injuries in an Infant: A Case Report and Literature Review
Author(s) -
Meisam Jafari Kafiabadi,
Mehrdad Sadighi,
Amir Sabaghzadeh,
Farsad Biglari,
Saber Barazandeh Rad,
Adel Ebrahimpour
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of orthopedics and spine trauma
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2538-4600
pISSN - 2538-2330
DOI - 10.18502/jost.v7i3.8112
Subject(s) - medicine , femur , tibia , surgery , knee joint , girl , psychology , developmental psychology
Background: Floating knee injury is defined as ipsilateral fractures of the femur and tibia. It was mostly seen among young men and is generally caused by high-velocity trauma such as motor vehicle accidents and falling from height. Although isolated fractures of the femur or tibia are relatively common in children, floating knee injuries are rare in adolescents and even less frequent in younger children.
Case Report: In this study, we reported a case of bilateral floating knee injuries of a 10-month old girl infant. Radiographic examinations revealed diaphyseal fracture of the left femur and proximal metaphyseal fracture of tibia compatible with floating knee injury type B according to the classification proposed by Letts et al. To the best of our knowledge, there was not any previous report of bilateral infantile floating knee injury in the literature.
Conclusion: Pediatric floating knee injuries are relatively uncommon and extremely rare among infants. The preferred method of treatment is a surgical fixation for all fractures of all ages.