• Junbo Liang, Qingguo Zhang, Peihong Liu, Bin Wang, Xiaobo Zhou, Guofu Chen, Chuanyi Zhang, and Youjia Xu.
• The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Taizhou Hospital Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, China.
• Injury. 2018 Nov 1; 49 (11): 2061-2067.

AimOur study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of an innovative arthroscopic-assisted inflatable tamp reduction technique for the treatment of posterolateral tibial plateau fractures.Patients And MethodsTwenty-six patients with posterolateral tibial plateau fractures were treated with arthroscopy through inflation reduction technique were enrolled. Arthroscopy was used to observe the reduction of articular surface to avoid over-reduction or de-reduction. An arthroscopic assessment of anatomic joint reduction completed the procedure. Inflatable bone tamp was used to reduce the fractures and calcium phosphate cement was used as bone substitute to augment the repairs.ResultsUnder arthroscopy, the reduction was observed to be excellent without any residual deformity in all the cases. Cement overflow into the soft tissues or the knee joint was not observed. During the follow-up period, no obvious articular surface subsidence (>5 mm) was observed and no evidence of posttraumatic osteoarthritis could be detected. Radiographs under full weight bearing revealed neither loss of reduction nor any valgus deviation. Three months after surgery, the graft was almost completely replaced by new bone. The functional evaluation following the Rasmussen score yielded excellent results.ConclusionsThis study provided a novel technique for the reduction of depressed and split-depressed pasterolateral tibial plateau fractures. Arthroscopic-assisted inflatable bone tamp reduction is an effective method for the treatment of posterolateral tibial plateau fractures.Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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