Basu Sandip Kanti, Bain Jayanta, Majumdar Bijay Kumar, Chattopadhyay Debarati, Baitalik Debasis, Dewangan Yatindra Kumar, Bhattacharya Debtanu, Rakshit Pritha, Gupta Vivek, Kumar Ashwani, Haldar Rathindra Nath
Department of Plastic Surgery, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Department Plastic Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand, India.
Indian J Plast Surg. 2017 Jan-Apr;50(1):100-103. doi: 10.4103/ijps.IJPS_200_16.
Electrical burn injury causing bilateral patellar ligament destruction leading to complete loss of knee extension is a very rare injury. In such situation, surgical repair or reconstruction of the patellar ligament becomes necessary to restore knee functions. Here, we present such a case of an 8-year-old boy, whose both patellar ligaments were destroyed throughout its length due to high-voltage electrical injury. His left knee joint cavity was exposed and grossly infected, but the right knee joint cavity was apparently intact. The right-sided patellar ligament was reconstructed with an ipsilateral and looped semitendinosus tendon graft and covered with a medial gastrocnemius musculocutaneous flap. The patient had an uneventful recovery, and full range of motion in the right knee joint along with good bipedal locomotion was achieved successfully.
