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A Modern "Nightstick Fracture" Induced by Contemporary Ballistics During the George Floyd Protests

A 28-year-old male presented to the emergency department with an isolated ulnar shaft fracture secondary to a ballistic injury with a wooden pellet gun. This injury is also known as a “nightstick fracture,” which is a common eponym in orthopedic surgery used to describe a fracture of the ulnar shaft...

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Autores principales: Passias, Braden J, Taylor, Benjamin C, Myers, Devon, Casey, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33786237
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13530