Separate Vertical Wiring for Comminuted Inferior Pole Fractures of Patella: An Effective Technique

vertical wiring technique from January 2017 to February 2020.The study was approved by our Institutional Ethics Committee.We have operated 32 cases of which only 28 cases available for a minimum follow-up of 2 years were included in the study (Table 1).Two patients expired due to coronavirus disease (COVID) pneumonia during the first wave of COVID pandemic and one patient during the second wave of COVID pandemic.Whereabouts of one more patient were not known.Comminuted inferior pole fractures of patella, where the comminuted fragments are too small for conventional TBW, in all age-groups were included in the study presented within 3 weeks of injury.Twenty-six cases were closed injury and two cases were grade II open injury.We have excluded when the fracture extended into the body of patella where additional procedures MaterIals a n d MethodsThis is a prospective study of consecutive cases of comminuted inferior pole fractures of patella which were treated with separate