The Clinical Effect of Arthroscopy on Knee Joint Function Recovery of Patients with Tibial Plateau Fractures

Objective To observe the effect of arthroscopy technology on the knee joint function in tibial plateau fracture patients.Methods 63 tibial plateau fracture patients with Schatzber type Ⅰ~Ⅳ underwent operations from January 2008 to January 2011 in our hospital.There were 30 cases patients received simple open reduction and internal fixation and 33 cases received arthroscopic reduction and internal fixation.All the patients were followed up at the 3 months,6 months and 12 months after operation,and the Rasmussen knee joint function scoring criteria was used for evaluation.Results For the simple open operation group and the arthroscopy assisted group,the Rasmussen knee joint function score at the 3-month-follow-up was 15.8±3.2 vs.18.8±3.0,which showed obvious statistics difference(P0.05).And the Rasmussen knee joint function score at the 6-month-follow-up and 12-month-follow-up was(23.5±3.4) vs.(25.8±3.2) and(24.5±3.0) vs.(26.5±3.2) respectively.And both of these two sets of data showed significant superiorities of the arthroscopy assisted group(P0.05).Conclusion The arthroscopy assisted reduction and internal fixation is help to the functional recovery of knee joint to the Schatzber-Ⅰ-Ⅳ-tibial plateau fractures.