Tibial Spine Fracture in an Adolescent Male After Minor Injury: A Case Report

CASE PRESENTATION: A 13-year-old male presented with right knee pain and swelling from a basketball injury. The right knee exam demonstrated minimal swelling, decreased range of motion secondary to pain, and generalized tenderness. A radiograph of the right knee revealed a tibial spine fracture. DIS...

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Autores principales: Nunez, Alberto, Sleight, Shayna, Khan, Zara, Blasko, Barbara, Kim, Tommy Y.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9697883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36427040
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.9.57228
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description CASE PRESENTATION: A 13-year-old male presented with right knee pain and swelling from a basketball injury. The right knee exam demonstrated minimal swelling, decreased range of motion secondary to pain, and generalized tenderness. A radiograph of the right knee revealed a tibial spine fracture. DISCUSSION: Tibial spine fractures are avulsion fractures of the spine of the tibia at the insertion site of the anterior cruciate ligament. The incidence of avulsion fractures is higher in adolescents because the region of the apophyseal growth plate between the soft-tissue attachment site and the body of the bone is weaker in that age group. Tibial spine avulsion fractures are relatively uncommon and occur annually in approximately three per 100,000 children.
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spelling pubmed-96978832022-11-28 Tibial Spine Fracture in an Adolescent Male After Minor Injury: A Case Report Nunez, Alberto Sleight, Shayna Khan, Zara Blasko, Barbara Kim, Tommy Y. Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report CASE PRESENTATION: A 13-year-old male presented with right knee pain and swelling from a basketball injury. The right knee exam demonstrated minimal swelling, decreased range of motion secondary to pain, and generalized tenderness. A radiograph of the right knee revealed a tibial spine fracture. DISCUSSION: Tibial spine fractures are avulsion fractures of the spine of the tibia at the insertion site of the anterior cruciate ligament. The incidence of avulsion fractures is higher in adolescents because the region of the apophyseal growth plate between the soft-tissue attachment site and the body of the bone is weaker in that age group. Tibial spine avulsion fractures are relatively uncommon and occur annually in approximately three per 100,000 children. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2022-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9697883/ /pubmed/36427040 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.9.57228 Text en © 2022 Nunez et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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title_fullStr Tibial Spine Fracture in an Adolescent Male After Minor Injury: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Tibial Spine Fracture in an Adolescent Male After Minor Injury: A Case Report
title_short Tibial Spine Fracture in an Adolescent Male After Minor Injury: A Case Report
title_sort tibial spine fracture in an adolescent male after minor injury: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9697883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36427040
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2022.9.57228
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