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Rev Bras Ortop (Sao Paulo)
November 2024
Departamento de Cirurgia Ortopédica, Fundación Clinica Shaio, Bogotá, Colômbia.
Floating elbow is a complex and rare entity caused by high-energy trauma. In this paper, we present the case of a patient who suffered a traffic accident with severe head trauma, floating elbow (humeral diaphyseal fracture, radial proximal diaphyseal fracture, and ulnar segmental fracture) and radial nerve injury. Fixations were made with a humeral plate and intramedullary rods in the forearm.
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March 2014
Orthopaedics and Traumatology Department, Mellino Mellini Hospital Trust, Civil Hospital of Chiari (Brescia), Italy.
Acta Chir Belg
August 2004
Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
The first techniques of operative fracture treatment were developed in the 19th century. In fact, these methods only consisted of an open reduction of the fracture followed by a usually very unstable fixation. This method gave rise to the combination of the disadvantages of the conservative and the operative fracture treatment: the fracture had to be opened with a real risk for (sometimes lethal) infection, the bone healing was disturbed, there was muscular atrophy and joint stiffness.
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