Stainless steel wire in a figure-of-eight for repair of distal femoral physeal fractures in ten cats: a case report

Ten cats were treated for distal femoral Salter-Harris fractures types I and II, using a stainless steel wire in a figure-of-eight configuration. Healing was uneventful in eight 8 of the cats. Early fixation failure occurred in one cat, that which required revisional surgery. In one cat, lameness recurred after fracture healing, which and was related to breakage of the wire. The lLameness was resolved following after removing removal of the wire. At the long-term follow-up, one 1 out of six 6 cats was lame. The This report indicates that the figure-of-eight stainless steel wire technique offers is an alternative method for the repair of distal femoral Salter-Harris fractures types I and II in cats.