Title

To asses functional out-come of distal femur fracture treated with distal femur locking plate using American knee society score

Authors

Amol Kawde^1,*, Sanjul Bansal¹, Kartikeya Singh², Aayush Kumar Soni³, Shrajay Singh Rawat⁴, Pratima Nagale⁵, Abhishek Keshav⁶ & Sachin Parmar⁷

Affiliation

¹Department of Orthopaedics, ABVGMC Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India; ²Department of Orthopaedics, LNCT Medical College and Sevakunj Hospital, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India; ³Department of Orthopaedics RKMC, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁴Department of Orthopaedics, SAMC and PGI, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁵Department of Emergency Medicine, ABVGMC Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁶Department of Orthopaedics, AIIMS, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; ⁷Department of Community Medicine, V.K.S. Government Medical College, Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh India; *Corresponding author

Email

Amol Kawde - E-mail: kawdeamol1997@gmail.com
Sanjul Bansal - E-mail: bansal.sanjul4@gmail.com
Kartikeya Singh - E-mail: Drkartikeyasingh@gmail.com
Aayush Kumar Soni - E-mail: aayushkumarsoni95@gmail.com
Shrajay Singh Rawat - E-mail: shrajaysingh01@gmail.com
Pratima Nagale - E-mail: Prratimaashokkumar@gmail.com
Abhishek Keshav - E-mail: abhishekforone@gmail.com
Sachin Parmar - E-mail: dr.sachinparmar@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received February 1, 2026; Revised February 28, 2026; Accepted February 28, 2026, Published February 28, 2026

Abstract

Despite advances in fixation techniques, distal femur fractures treated with distal femur locking plates can have inconsistent functional recovery; therefore, functional outcome assessment using the American Knee Society Score (AKSS) is required. Locking plates on the distal femur provide greater stability and resistance to reduction in alignment during the management of distal femoral fractures when designs with fixed angles proved insufficient to manage some types of fractures. In this research, which was carried out at Sri Aurobindo Medical College and PG Institute, the authors assessed the results of 30 patients with closed distal femur fracture treated with these plates. The results showed good to excellent functional outcomes, 56.7 percent of patients had excellent results and few complications such as shortening of limbs (6.7) and infection (10). Thus, we show that locking compression plates are useful in the treatment of fractures of the distal femur.

Keywords

Distal femur fracture, distal femur locking plate, American Knee Society Score (AKSS), AO/ASIF classification, functional outcome

Citation

Kawde et al. Bioinformation 22(2): 889-892 (2026)

Edited by

P Kangueane

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.