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SUBMITTER: Hassini L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5911725 | biostudies-other | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Hassini Lassaad L Saidi Aymen A Touati Boujemaa B Ben Fradj Aymen A Aloui Issam I Abid Abderrazek A
Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi 20180220 2
In this report, we describe an extremely unusual Monteggia equivalent type 1 lesion in a 10-year-old boy following a fall from a height of 1 m. On the plain radiographs, our patient had a particular Monteggia equivalent type 1 injury associating a posterior elbow dislocation with diaphyseal radius and ulna fractures. The patient was treated by closed reduction technique. At six months of follow-up, the fractures were consolidated and the elbow was stable. To our knowledge, only 8 adult cases and ...[more]