Characterization of bone fragment displacement during minimally invasive surgical procedures by digital volume correlation (DVC)
Résumé
For several years, in traumatic surgery, techniques have evolved towards minimally invasive methods. In 2013, Vendeuvre et al. published a new minimally invasive technic, named Tuberoplasty, to treat Schatzker type II fractures (Vendeuvre et al. 2013) (Kfuri and Schatzker 2018). This type of fracture corresponds to the splitting and depression of the lateral tibial plateau and mostly occurs in fall from height cases. The surgical procedure was defined to reduce the fracture with an expanding balloon and to stabilize the fracture with PMMA (PolyMethylMethAcrylate) cement injection and bi-cortical screws. As others minimally invasive methods this procedure has considerable advantages in terms of morbidity, speed of recovery and quality of fracture reduction. But the lack of direct fracture visualization requires surgeons to have thorough pre-operative planning to understand how to reduce the fracture.