ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2025
The flexible separate vertical suture fixation for comminuted inferior patella fracture with osteoporosis: a retrospective clinical study.
Article in BMC musculoskeletal disorders, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this retrospective study was to investigate the efficacy and functional outcomes of utilizing a flexible separate vertical suture fixation technique in osteoporotic patients presenting with comminuted fractures of the inferior patellar pole.
methodsA flexible separate vertical suture fixation by braided polyester was applied. Between January 2021 and December 2022, 19 patients diagnosed as comminuted inferior patella fracture with osteoporosis were retrospectively enrolled in this study.
resultsThe mean operative time was 34.2 ± 3.2 minutes, bone union achieved in all cases at an average of 3.1 ± 0.5 months after surgery. At the last follow up, the mean ROM was 132.1 ± 2.9°, and the mean Bostman score was 29.1 ± 0.9. During follow up, no instances of wire cutting or internal fixation failure occurred among the patients, no instances of postoperative anterior knee pain or refracture of the inferior patellar pole were observed and no surgical removal of implants was performed for any of the patients.
conclusionsThe flexible separate vertical suture fixation by thread is an effective fixation method for comminuted inferior patella fracture, especially for those elderly patients with osteoporosis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.