Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report

A pediatric floating elbow is a rare condition in which there is a humeral supracondylar fracture with an ipsilateral fracture of one or both bones of the forearm. We report a case caused by an unusual mechanism of a semi-automatic washing machine. This injury, on its own, involves the risk of compa...

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Autores principales: Albattat, Mustafa Y, Alhathloul, Hisham, Almohammed Saleh, Mohammed, Althabit, Fatimah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Pediatric Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9559866/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36258969
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29124
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author Albattat, Mustafa Y
Alhathloul, Hisham
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Althabit, Fatimah
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description A pediatric floating elbow is a rare condition in which there is a humeral supracondylar fracture with an ipsilateral fracture of one or both bones of the forearm. We report a case caused by an unusual mechanism of a semi-automatic washing machine. This injury, on its own, involves the risk of compartment syndrome, however, this particular child came late. We present our approach to this challenging injury along with the controversial management in the literature.
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spelling pubmed-95598662022-10-17 Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report Albattat, Mustafa Y Alhathloul, Hisham Almohammed Saleh, Mohammed Althabit, Fatimah Cureus Pediatric Surgery A pediatric floating elbow is a rare condition in which there is a humeral supracondylar fracture with an ipsilateral fracture of one or both bones of the forearm. We report a case caused by an unusual mechanism of a semi-automatic washing machine. This injury, on its own, involves the risk of compartment syndrome, however, this particular child came late. We present our approach to this challenging injury along with the controversial management in the literature. Cureus 2022-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9559866/ /pubmed/36258969 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29124 Text en Copyright © 2022, Albattat 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.
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Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report
title Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report
title_full Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report
title_fullStr Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report
title_short Pediatric Floating Elbow Caused by a Novel Mechanism: A Case Report
title_sort pediatric floating elbow caused by a novel mechanism: a case report
topic Pediatric Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9559866/
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