Ball-Thrower's Fracture of the Humerus These radiographs reveal a mildly displaced, comminuted spiral fracture at the distal diaphysis of the left humerus with an associated butterfly fragment. The patient, a healthy recreational athlete with no prior arm pains, described making an off-balanced but forceful throw that was accompanied by a loud snapping noise. Michael N. Colapinto, Emil H. Schemitsch and Louis Wu CMAJ • July 4, 2006; 175 (1).

This 82 year old lady slipped and fell while she was pushing her shopping cart across an icy parking lot. She was unable to get up from her fall and was taken to hospital. In the emergency room, she complained of pain in both legs. She was neurovascularly intact, had deformities of both thighs, and there were no open injuries. Examination of both hips, ankles, and feet were normal. The pelvis was stable and nontender. Radiographs were obtained after splinting her legs (below).

AO Foundation Case Discussion September 2003 Male patient 35 years old who had a motorcycle accident with a closed left femoral fracture. No other injuries. 1. Fracture Male patient 35 years old who had a motorcycle accident with a closed left femoral fracture. No other injuries. Discussion Classification: Is this a proximal femoral or shaft fracture or a diaphyseal fracture ? 31 or 32 ? Which of the two is more urgent to treat ? Treatment options: Intramedullary nail, Plate/Screw device, Other ?

OTA Case discussion A male 31 y.o. addmitted to our unit today with the subject (see attachment). Injured in a car accident 1 month ago, since that he has been at bed traction. Other fractures are minor - undisplaced pubic rami and distal ulna.

Discussion of management of fracture at the distal end of a plate fixing the healed arthrodesis

Surgeons have been grappling with the problem of severe lower extremity injuries for more than a century. This author, Dr. Matthew L. Jiminez, Illinois Bone and Joint Institute, presented a review of the literature, decision-making process, and scoring systems for complex lower extremity injuries at the second annual Chicago Trauma Symposium, June 23-25, 2000.

Trauma Cases from King Fahd Hospital - Medina Munawrah. Saudi Arabia

AO Foundation Case. Fracture dislocation hip, bilateral femur fractures, open tibial fracture and liver laceration. Treated by immediate minimally invasive plating and delayed definitive treatment

Necrotizing Fasciitis From Apophysomyces elegans Infection Following Trauma from Infections in Medicine Posted 08/08/2002 Lorraine M. Dowdy, DO, Jose G. Castro, MD, Carlos Duchesne, MD, Timothy Cleary, MD Abstract Following a motorcycle accident, a 29-year-old man had fixation of a femoral fracture with an intramedullary rod. After he was discharged, the wound deteriorated rapidly and did not improve despite multiple debridements and antibiotic therapy. Apophysomyces elegans grew on cultures, and treatment with amphotericin B was followed by healing and plastic reconstruction.

2 Cases Report. J Korean Fracture Soc. 2000 Oct;13(4):978-98 Spiral fractures of the middle or distal shaft of the humerus that occur during attempts to throw a variety of objects are not common. Many authors have reported that the cause of fracture was the results of uncoordinated muscle violence. We experienced two cases of throwing fractures of humerus, one is baseball player(catcher) preceded by arm pain during throwing motion, the other is recreational hand grenade player without prodromal arm pain. 1. Korean (Abstract)

Case report of a patient with Gorham's disease treated with pamidronate. Archive Copy 2004

OTA Mailing List Case Discussion 18 Dec 2003 03:31:56 +0500 From: Alexander Chelnokov Subject: Unhappy (valgus) tibia nailing A female 24 years old, a sister of a friend of mine (not physician) living in Moscow, 3 weeks ago admitted to the hospital in Moscow after a car accident (was a pedestrian) with a tibial shaft fracture. 3 days ago closed locked nailing was performed, see attached films. Now he is in panic because they are going to remove the nail and perform plating.

EBM case study