Non-union of the trapezium: rare consequence of a rare injury

Fractures of the trapezium are rare and easily missed. As these injuries are often imperceptible on plain radiographs, diagnosis in the ED setting is challenging. We report a case of an isolated fracture of the trapezium which was picked up as a non-union 5 months after the injury following persiste...

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Autores principales: Samson, Deepak, Jones, Matthew, Mahon, Andrew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29765589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy076
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description Fractures of the trapezium are rare and easily missed. As these injuries are often imperceptible on plain radiographs, diagnosis in the ED setting is challenging. We report a case of an isolated fracture of the trapezium which was picked up as a non-union 5 months after the injury following persistence of symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-59411662018-05-15 Non-union of the trapezium: rare consequence of a rare injury Samson, Deepak Jones, Matthew Mahon, Andrew J Surg Case Rep Case Report Fractures of the trapezium are rare and easily missed. As these injuries are often imperceptible on plain radiographs, diagnosis in the ED setting is challenging. We report a case of an isolated fracture of the trapezium which was picked up as a non-union 5 months after the injury following persistence of symptoms. Oxford University Press 2018-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5941166/ /pubmed/29765589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy076 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_short Non-union of the trapezium: rare consequence of a rare injury
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29765589
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy076
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