University of Montana

The knee has a medial and lateral tibial plateau, on which the menisci sit and articulate with the femoral condyles. These types of fractures only account for one percent of all fractures and up to 70% of isolated tibial plateau fractures occur to the lateral plateau, whereas 25% are isolated medial tibial plateau fractures.1, 2 The mechanism of injury to cause a tibial plateau fracture is ... ................
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