J Korean Fract Soc.  1989 Jun;2(1):42-48. 10.12671/jksf.1989.2.1.42.

Conservative Treatment of Ligamentous Injury of Knee in Head Trauma Patients

• Kim JY
• Choi YA
• Choi YC
• Kong BS

• KMID: 2311788
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12671/jksf.1989.2.1.42

Abstract

Operative treatment has been used in unstable ligamentous imjury of knee joint. We experienced three cases of ligamentous injury of knee that was accompained with head trauma and other organ injury. Despite of sugical candidate, we did only conservative treatment due to poor general condition and difficulty of anesthesia. The result was realtively better than we expected. We reported these cases.

Keyword

Ligamentous injury of knee; Conservative treatment; Head trauma

MeSH Terms

Anesthesia
Craniocerebral Trauma*
Head*
Humans
Knee Joint
Knee*
Ligaments*