Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft

Fractures of the scapular spine are relatively uncommon. We report a case of a 39 year old male who developed an atrophic non-union scapular spine fracture entering the spino-glenoid notch. We describe our experience with this rare fracture pattern and identify the need for early internal fixation i...

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Autores principales: As-Sultany, Mohammed, Tambe, Amol, Clark, David I.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300318
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6042.42202
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Tambe, Amol
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description Fractures of the scapular spine are relatively uncommon. We report a case of a 39 year old male who developed an atrophic non-union scapular spine fracture entering the spino-glenoid notch. We describe our experience with this rare fracture pattern and identify the need for early internal fixation in the young, active and working population.
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spelling pubmed-28408232010-03-18 Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft As-Sultany, Mohammed Tambe, Amol Clark, David I. Int J Shoulder Surg Case Report Fractures of the scapular spine are relatively uncommon. We report a case of a 39 year old male who developed an atrophic non-union scapular spine fracture entering the spino-glenoid notch. We describe our experience with this rare fracture pattern and identify the need for early internal fixation in the young, active and working population. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2840823/ /pubmed/20300318 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6042.42202 Text en © International Journal of Shoulder Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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As-Sultany, Mohammed
Tambe, Amol
Clark, David I.
Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft
title Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft
title_full Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft
title_fullStr Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft
title_full_unstemmed Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft
title_short Nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: Case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft
title_sort nonunion of a scapular spine fracture: case report and management with open reduction, internal fixation, and bone graft
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2840823/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20300318
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-6042.42202
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