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
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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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author Alawad, Mohammad O.
Alharthi, Saleh
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Alanazi, Basam
Surur, Saad
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description 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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spelling pubmed-60156932018-07-08 Open Fracture of the Acromion: An Isolated Injury with Oblique-Type Fracture Alawad, Mohammad O. Alharthi, Saleh Mahmoud, Jameel Alanazi, Basam Surur, Saad Case Rep Orthop Case Report 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. Hindawi 2018-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6015693/ /pubmed/29984020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2107059 Text en Copyright © 2018 Mohammad O. Alawad et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Open Fracture of the Acromion: An Isolated Injury with Oblique-Type Fracture
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title_short Open Fracture of the Acromion: An Isolated Injury with Oblique-Type Fracture
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