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Difficulty in diagnosing the pathological nature of an acute fracture of the clavicle: a case report.

Malik, SS; Azad, S; Malik, S; Hing, CB (2009) Difficulty in diagnosing the pathological nature of an acute fracture of the clavicle: a case report. J Orthop Surg Res, 4. p. 21. ISSN 1749-799X https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-4-21
SGUL Authors: Hing, Caroline Blanca

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Abstract

Fractures of the clavicle comprise between 5% to10% of all fractures. Medial clavicular fractures are uncommon and are normally caused by high-energy trauma. A low impact mechanism of injury should raise suspicion of a pathological fracture, but this case report highlights the difficulty in diagnosing the pathological nature of an acute fracture of the clavicle. We describe a patient who presented with a medial clavicular fracture after a simple fall but the fracture was diagnosed as pathological in retrospect four months after the initial presentation. We would also like to emphasise that the medial clavicle is the most frequent site of pathological fractures of the clavicle, and the possibility of an underlying pathological condition should be considered whenever a patient with a medial clavicular fracture is encountered.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2009 Malik et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: 1103 Clinical Sciences, Orthopedics
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute (MCS)
Journal or Publication Title: J Orthop Surg Res
ISSN: 1749-799X
Language: eng
Dates:
DateEvent
25 June 2009Published
25 June 2009Accepted
Publisher License: Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0
PubMed ID: 19555487
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URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/113144
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-4-21

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