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Pneumopericardium is an exceptionally uncommon phenomenon in the setting of blunt polytrauma. It is imperative for trauma providers to identify tension pneumopericardium despite its rarity. A 22-year-old male motorcyclist presented to the hospital after colliding with a car going approximately 50 mph.

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Management of Distal Tibial Metaphyseal Fractures With the SIGN Intramedullary Nail in 3 Developing Countries.

J Orthop Trauma

December 2015

*Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Clinton Township, MI; †Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar, Pakistan; ‡Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya; §Soddo Christian Hospital, Soddo, Ethiopia; ‖Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan; ¶Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabiliation University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; **Resurgens Orthopaedics, Marietta, GA; and ††SIGN Fracture Care International.

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of the Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN) intramedullary (IM) nail in distal tibial metaphyseal fractures.

Design: Retrospective Case Series.

Setting: Three Level I trauma centers in 3 different developing countries from 2009 to 2013.

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We encountered a case of ruptured splenic abscess presenting as peritonitis and pneumoperitoneum. Our patient did not have an underlying neoplasm nor was she immunosuppressed. In our case, splenectomy was the treatment of choice in combination with antibiotics, which proved to be a good outcome for the patient.

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