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Background Pelvic discontinuity is a complex reconstructive challenge characterized by a dissociation of the superior and inferior hemipelvis secondary to fracture or substantial bone loss in the setting of total hip arthroplasty. Potential massive bone loss and motion through the…
CASE STUDY A 66-year-old woman underwent a primary total knee arthroplasty for advanced osteoarthritis of her right knee. Four years after the index arthroplasty, she sustained a closed, displaced, comminuted, supracondylar periprosthetic femur fracture after a mechanical fall. This was…