A Case of an Ulnar Nerve Laceration With Distal Humerus Fracture From Machete Trauma

Ulnar nerve dysfunction following distal humerus fractures is a recognized phenomenon. There is no dominating consensus regarding the optimal management of the ulnar nerve during surgical intervention for these fractures between leaving the nerve in situ versus nerve transposition for better healing...

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Autores principales: Murray-Ramcharan, Max, Atchison, Jared, Leroux, Ofelia, Engdahl, Ryan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Plastic Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9528922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36211092
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28737
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Atchison, Jared
Leroux, Ofelia
Engdahl, Ryan
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description Ulnar nerve dysfunction following distal humerus fractures is a recognized phenomenon. There is no dominating consensus regarding the optimal management of the ulnar nerve during surgical intervention for these fractures between leaving the nerve in situ versus nerve transposition for better healing. Additional complexities arise in the case we present, in which there was an open fracture compounded with an ulnar nerve laceration from a traumatic injury with a machete knife. We review and discuss the management of ulnar nerve injuries associated with complex open fractures of the humerus for optimizing patient outcomes following these injuries.
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spelling pubmed-95289222022-10-06 A Case of an Ulnar Nerve Laceration With Distal Humerus Fracture From Machete Trauma Murray-Ramcharan, Max Atchison, Jared Leroux, Ofelia Engdahl, Ryan Cureus Plastic Surgery Ulnar nerve dysfunction following distal humerus fractures is a recognized phenomenon. There is no dominating consensus regarding the optimal management of the ulnar nerve during surgical intervention for these fractures between leaving the nerve in situ versus nerve transposition for better healing. Additional complexities arise in the case we present, in which there was an open fracture compounded with an ulnar nerve laceration from a traumatic injury with a machete knife. We review and discuss the management of ulnar nerve injuries associated with complex open fractures of the humerus for optimizing patient outcomes following these injuries. Cureus 2022-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9528922/ /pubmed/36211092 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28737 Text en Copyright © 2022, Murray-Ramcharan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Plastic Surgery
Murray-Ramcharan, Max
Atchison, Jared
Leroux, Ofelia
Engdahl, Ryan
A Case of an Ulnar Nerve Laceration With Distal Humerus Fracture From Machete Trauma
title A Case of an Ulnar Nerve Laceration With Distal Humerus Fracture From Machete Trauma
title_full A Case of an Ulnar Nerve Laceration With Distal Humerus Fracture From Machete Trauma
title_fullStr A Case of an Ulnar Nerve Laceration With Distal Humerus Fracture From Machete Trauma
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title_short A Case of an Ulnar Nerve Laceration With Distal Humerus Fracture From Machete Trauma
title_sort case of an ulnar nerve laceration with distal humerus fracture from machete trauma
topic Plastic Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9528922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36211092
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28737
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