Scaphoid fractures with unusual presentations: a case series

Despite the high incidence of scaphoid fractures, their diagnosis and treatment is often delayed which can lead to complications such as non-union, avascular necrosis, and future arthritis. We present three cases with non-classical mechanisms of injury, leading to a delayed diagnosis in all three ca...

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Autores principales: Pandit, Sandesh, Wen, Dennis Y
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Case report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19829935
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7220
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description Despite the high incidence of scaphoid fractures, their diagnosis and treatment is often delayed which can lead to complications such as non-union, avascular necrosis, and future arthritis. We present three cases with non-classical mechanisms of injury, leading to a delayed diagnosis in all three cases. Our cases serve to emphasize the importance of a high index of suspicion for the possibility of scaphoid fractures in order to avoid these potential complications.
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spelling pubmed-27402062009-10-14 Scaphoid fractures with unusual presentations: a case series Pandit, Sandesh Wen, Dennis Y Cases J Case report Despite the high incidence of scaphoid fractures, their diagnosis and treatment is often delayed which can lead to complications such as non-union, avascular necrosis, and future arthritis. We present three cases with non-classical mechanisms of injury, leading to a delayed diagnosis in all three cases. Our cases serve to emphasize the importance of a high index of suspicion for the possibility of scaphoid fractures in order to avoid these potential complications. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2740206/ /pubmed/19829935 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7220 Text en © 2009 Pandit and Wen; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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