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Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation

INTRODUCTION: The standard treatment for clavicle fractures non operative but surgical management is essential in certain specific indications. The purpose of this study is to report a not very commonly seen bilateral fracture of a clavicle in a young female patient treated with intramedullary fixat...

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Autores principales: Kulkarni, Raghavendra S, Kulkarni, Rachana M, Arora, Pankush, Shyam, A K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27298840
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description INTRODUCTION: The standard treatment for clavicle fractures non operative but surgical management is essential in certain specific indications. The purpose of this study is to report a not very commonly seen bilateral fracture of a clavicle in a young female patient treated with intramedullary fixation CASE REPORT: A 23 year old female patient sustained a bilateral clavicle fracture as a result of direct blow to shoulder and was treated with intramedullary K wires on both sides in single sitting. Postoperatively arm was maintained in a sling for 3 weeks. The implant was removed after a month when radiographs showed good bridging callus. After 8 weeks of fixation, she achieved full range of motion in both shoulders without any pain and was thus subsequently allowed to return to her daily activities. CONCLUSION: For bilateral fractures clavicle, intramedullary fixation with K wire is a safe and effective modality for good pain relief and rapid recovery of range of motion. We did not encounter any complications.
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spelling pubmed-47011092016-06-13 Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation Kulkarni, Raghavendra S Kulkarni, Rachana M Arora, Pankush Shyam, A K J Orthop Case Reports Trauma INTRODUCTION: The standard treatment for clavicle fractures non operative but surgical management is essential in certain specific indications. The purpose of this study is to report a not very commonly seen bilateral fracture of a clavicle in a young female patient treated with intramedullary fixation CASE REPORT: A 23 year old female patient sustained a bilateral clavicle fracture as a result of direct blow to shoulder and was treated with intramedullary K wires on both sides in single sitting. Postoperatively arm was maintained in a sling for 3 weeks. The implant was removed after a month when radiographs showed good bridging callus. After 8 weeks of fixation, she achieved full range of motion in both shoulders without any pain and was thus subsequently allowed to return to her daily activities. CONCLUSION: For bilateral fractures clavicle, intramedullary fixation with K wire is a safe and effective modality for good pain relief and rapid recovery of range of motion. We did not encounter any complications. Indian Orthopaedic Research Group 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC4701109/ /pubmed/27298840 Text en Copyright: © Indian Orthopaedic Research Group http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kulkarni, Raghavendra S
Kulkarni, Rachana M
Arora, Pankush
Shyam, A K
Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation
title Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation
title_full Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation
title_fullStr Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation
title_short Bilateral Fracture Clavicles occurring Simultaneously and treated with Intramedullary Fixation
title_sort bilateral fracture clavicles occurring simultaneously and treated with intramedullary fixation
topic Trauma
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4701109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27298840
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