The Floating Upper Limb: Multiple Injuries Involving Ipsilateral, Proximal, Humeral, Supracondylar, and Distal Radial Limb.
10.4055/cios.2016.8.3.345
- Author:
Qazi MANAAN
1
;
Adil BASHIR
;
Adnan ZAHOOR
;
Taseem A MOKHDOMI
;
Qazi DANISH
Author Information
1. Government Bone & Joint Hospital, Srinagar, India.
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Humeral fractures;
Multiple trauma;
Kirschner wires
- MeSH:
Accidental Falls;
*Bone Wires;
Child;
Fracture Fixation;
Humans;
*Humeral Fractures;
Male;
Multiple Trauma;
Radiography;
*Radius Fractures;
*Upper Extremity/diagnostic imaging/injuries/surgery
- From:Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery
2016;8(3):345-348
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Floating arm injury represents a common yet complicated injury of the childhood severely associated with limb deformation and even morbidity, if not precisely addressed and credibly operated. Here, we report a rare floating upper limb case of a 9-year-old boy with multiple injuries of ipsilateral proximal humeral, supracondylar and distal radial limb. This is the first report to document such a combined floating elbow and floating arm injury in the same limb. In this report, we discuss the surgical procedures used and recovery of the patient monitored to ascertain the effectiveness of the method in limb reorganisation.
