Pucker sign in an adult distal radial fracture

Puckering of the skin following a fracture is a rare sign which can result in skin necrosis if the fracture is not urgently reduced. Skin puckering is associated with humeral, tibia and clavicular fractures. We present a case of a 79-year-old woman who fell on to her outstretched hand sustaining a r...

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Autores principales: Al-salihy, Mazin, Ross, Carlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6453332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30948397
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228046
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description Puckering of the skin following a fracture is a rare sign which can result in skin necrosis if the fracture is not urgently reduced. Skin puckering is associated with humeral, tibia and clavicular fractures. We present a case of a 79-year-old woman who fell on to her outstretched hand sustaining a right radial fracture with obvious skin puckering. Following X-rays, local anaesthetic was given and the skin was reduced, the fracture manipulated and a full cast applied. The patient made a full recovery. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of the pucker sign in an adult radial fracture.
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spelling pubmed-64533322019-04-23 Pucker sign in an adult distal radial fracture Al-salihy, Mazin Ross, Carlo BMJ Case Rep Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury Puckering of the skin following a fracture is a rare sign which can result in skin necrosis if the fracture is not urgently reduced. Skin puckering is associated with humeral, tibia and clavicular fractures. We present a case of a 79-year-old woman who fell on to her outstretched hand sustaining a right radial fracture with obvious skin puckering. Following X-rays, local anaesthetic was given and the skin was reduced, the fracture manipulated and a full cast applied. The patient made a full recovery. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of the pucker sign in an adult radial fracture. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6453332/ /pubmed/30948397 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2018-228046 Text en © BMJ Publishing Group Limited 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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