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Traumatic physeal fractures in cats: a review of 36 cases (2010-2020).

Carlos RubinosRichard Lawrence Meeson
Published in: Journal of feline medicine and surgery (2021)
Fracture of the distal femoral physis was the most common physeal fracture seen. Cats presenting with physeal fractures may be skeletally immature or mature with delayed physeal closure. The rate of physeal closure after fracture repair was relatively high but without apparent impact. The frequency of implant removal was very low, indicating that despite having a physeal fracture repair, most cats did not require a second procedure to remove implants. Overall, internal fixation provided a good outcome in most fractures.
Keyphrases
  • hip fracture
  • minimally invasive
  • soft tissue
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • diffusion weighted imaging