Open Fracture of the Acromion: An Isolated Injury with Oblique-Type Fracture

Open acromial fractures are a rare set of fractures. We report a case of Gustilo IIIA open acromial fracture (14A2 as per OTA scapular fracture classification) that was isolated from any other injury. Our patient had a good recovery and showed excellent clinical outcome after irrigation and screw fi...

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Autores principales: Alawad, Mohammad O., Alharthi, Saleh, Mahmoud, Jameel, Alanazi, Basam, Surur, Saad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6015693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29984020
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2107059
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Sumario:Open acromial fractures are a rare set of fractures. We report a case of Gustilo IIIA open acromial fracture (14A2 as per OTA scapular fracture classification) that was isolated from any other injury. Our patient had a good recovery and showed excellent clinical outcome after irrigation and screw fixation of the acromial fracture. We also reviewed the literature for other cases of open acromial fracture.

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