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One-staged tibial corrective osteotomy and total knee arthroplasty is a challenging but effective treatment for arthritic knees with extra-articular deformity. Although osteocutaneous thermal necrosis is accepted as a complication of intramedullary reamed nailing following long bone fractures, only 15 cases have been reported in the English literature at present. This report illustrates a rare case of thermal necrosis in a patient undergoing tibial corrective osteotomy coincident with long-stemmed total knee arthroplasty. Excessive reaming with a machine reamer is hypothesized as the cause of this serious complication. In this report, we highlight this rare but serious complication after long-stemmed total knee arthroplasty.
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Ishida, K., Tsumura, N., Takayama, K. et al. Thermal necrosis after simultaneous tibial osteotomy and total knee arthroplasty using press-fit extension-stem. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc 19, 112–114 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-010-1187-0
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