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A Rare Case of Traumatic Bilateral Fibular Head Fractures

Avulsion fibular head fractures are rare. There is only one reference of bilateral fibular fractures after epileptic seizure. We aim to present the mechanism and the treatment of this rare injury. We present the case of a 30-year-old woman who was hit by a car on the anteromedial side of both knees....

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Autores principales: Chytas, Anastasios, Spyridakis, Antonios, Gigis, John, Beslikas, Theodoros, Panos, Nikolaos, Christoforidis, John
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20811573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/920568
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author Chytas, Anastasios
Spyridakis, Antonios
Gigis, John
Beslikas, Theodoros
Panos, Nikolaos
Christoforidis, John
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Spyridakis, Antonios
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description Avulsion fibular head fractures are rare. There is only one reference of bilateral fibular fractures after epileptic seizure. We aim to present the mechanism and the treatment of this rare injury. We present the case of a 30-year-old woman who was hit by a car on the anteromedial side of both knees. Clinical and radiographic control showed bilateral fibular head fractures. Knee instability was not found at both knees and MRI did not show any concomitant ligament ruptures. Bone bruises of both medial condyles found in MRI explain the mechanism of this injury. The patient was treated conservatively with functional knee braces for 6 weeks allowing full range of motion, but otherwise mobilised as normal without any support. Six weeks after the trauma, there were no symptoms while the fractures sites had united completely after 6 months. One year postinjury the patient was free from symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-29296852010-09-01 A Rare Case of Traumatic Bilateral Fibular Head Fractures Chytas, Anastasios Spyridakis, Antonios Gigis, John Beslikas, Theodoros Panos, Nikolaos Christoforidis, John Case Rep Med Case Report Avulsion fibular head fractures are rare. There is only one reference of bilateral fibular fractures after epileptic seizure. We aim to present the mechanism and the treatment of this rare injury. We present the case of a 30-year-old woman who was hit by a car on the anteromedial side of both knees. Clinical and radiographic control showed bilateral fibular head fractures. Knee instability was not found at both knees and MRI did not show any concomitant ligament ruptures. Bone bruises of both medial condyles found in MRI explain the mechanism of this injury. The patient was treated conservatively with functional knee braces for 6 weeks allowing full range of motion, but otherwise mobilised as normal without any support. Six weeks after the trauma, there were no symptoms while the fractures sites had united completely after 6 months. One year postinjury the patient was free from symptoms. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2929685/ /pubmed/20811573 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/920568 Text en Copyright © 2010 Anastasios Chytas et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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A Rare Case of Traumatic Bilateral Fibular Head Fractures
title A Rare Case of Traumatic Bilateral Fibular Head Fractures
title_full A Rare Case of Traumatic Bilateral Fibular Head Fractures
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Traumatic Bilateral Fibular Head Fractures
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title_short A Rare Case of Traumatic Bilateral Fibular Head Fractures
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topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20811573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/920568
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