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Plexus injury after reduction of anterior caudal dislocation of the shoulder
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Abstract
The case is reported of a 45-year-old male patient who fell when his ladder slipped away from underneath him. He sustained a bilateral dislocation of the shoulders (bilateral luxatio erecta humeri). The injury on one hand was a glenohumeral dislocation of the humerus head right to ventral and caudal, accompanied by a suspected fracture of the tuberculum major and on the other hand a glenohumeral dislocation of the left humerus head to ventral and caudal, accompanied by a suspected total collum fracture. Based on this case and the pertinent literature, the patho-physiology, diagnosis and treatment of this rare injury are discussed. After immediate closed reduction, soft tissue damage, fractures or neurovascular lesions should be operated on as soon as possible.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Acta chirurgica Belgica. - Brussel, 1946 - 1996
Publication
Brussel : 2008
ISSN
0001-5458
DOI
10.1080/00015458.2008.11680241
Volume/pages
108 :3 (2008) , p. 362-364
ISI
000257853300021
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UAntwerpen
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