A rare cause for knee pain: fracture of the femoral component after TKR. A case report

C Luring; L Perlick; T Schubert; M Tingart

doi:10.1007/s00167-006-0210-y

A rare cause for knee pain: fracture of the femoral component after TKR. A case report

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2007 Jun;15(6):756-7. doi: 10.1007/s00167-006-0210-y. Epub 2006 Oct 6.

Authors

C Luring¹, L Perlick, T Schubert, M Tingart

Affiliation

¹ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Regensburg, Kaiser-Karl-V. Allee 3, 93077 Bad Abbach, Germany. c_luering@yahoo.de

PMID: 17024478
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-006-0210-y

Abstract

We report the rare case of sudden knee pain due to fracture of the total knee replacement nine years after implantation. Fracture occurred because of subsequent osteolysis due to polyethylene wear.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Arthralgia / etiology*
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee / instrumentation*
Humans
Knee Prosthesis*
Male
Prosthesis Failure*
Reoperation