Patellar fracture: locking plate beats tension-band wiring

AudioScholar Orthopedics Weekly (India) · Sep 3, 2026 · 10m

Editor's Pick: Locking plate fixation compared with tension-band wiring for patellar fractures: a multicentre randomized controlled trial (Bone & Joint Journal, 2026)

Welcome to This Week in Orthopedics. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning fracture fixation and the timing of surgery, arthroplasty technology and its complications, and the longer view on joint preservation, infection, and spine outcomes. Let's dive in. We start with trauma, where two papers ask very different questions about how and when we operate.

This week's papers:

Locking plate fixation compared with…