What's a complex tibia fracture? Lindsey Vonn's injury explained

Here's how doctors describe a "complex tibia fracture," the injury Lindsey Vonn says she has after a horrific Olympics crash.
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BLOG: Tibial tubercle transfer surgery works well — Reflections after 50 years

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. I scrubbed on my first tibial tubercle transfer — a medializing Southwick dovetail osteotomy — in 1975 when ...
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Dr. Maury Harwood Performs Tibia Surgery on Yamaha Racer at California Surgery Center

Maury Harwood, MD, a physician at National Ambulatory Surgery Center in Los Gatos, Calif., performed tibia surgery on a Yamaha full-factory road racing team member in late December, according to a Motorcyclist Magazine report. Dr. Harwood plated the tibia ...
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LimaCorporate Announces 1st Surgery Using Physica System Trabecular Titanium™ Tibial Plate

SAN DANIELE DEL FRIULI, Italy, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LimaCorporate ushers in a new age of collaboration and innovation with the 1 st surgery with Physica system Trabecular Titanium™ (TT) Tibial Plate. On April 29 th, Dr. Ivan De Martino performed ...
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Tibial tubercle transfer associated with low complication risk with, without distalization

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tibial tubercle osteotomy with vs. without distalization yielded low rates of postoperative complications. Both techniques yielded similar rates of arthrofibrosis ...

Lindsey Vonn taking 'baby steps' after latest surgery that took over 6 hours: 'A lot of plates and screws'

After her Olympic crash, Lindsey Vonn faced a grueling six-hour surgery filled with plates and screws—her fifth operation—as she continued her long recovery journey.