“Floating shoulder” injuries

“Floating shoulder” is a rare injury complex resulting from high-energy blunt force trauma to the shoulder, resulting in scapulothoracic dissociation. It is commonly associated with catastrophic neurovascular injury. Two cases of motorcyclists with floating shoulder injuries are described.

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Autor principal: Heng, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26961729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-016-0110-y
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spelling pubmed-47851742016-04-09 “Floating shoulder” injuries Heng, Kenneth Int J Emerg Med Case Report “Floating shoulder” is a rare injury complex resulting from high-energy blunt force trauma to the shoulder, resulting in scapulothoracic dissociation. It is commonly associated with catastrophic neurovascular injury. Two cases of motorcyclists with floating shoulder injuries are described. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4785174/ /pubmed/26961729 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12245-016-0110-y Text en © Heng. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4785174/
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