Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery  2016;8(3):345-348

doi:10.4055/cios.2016.8.3.345

The Floating Upper Limb: Multiple Injuries Involving Ipsilateral, Proximal, Humeral, Supracondylar, and Distal Radial Limb.

Qazi MANAAN 1 ; Adil BASHIR ; Adnan ZAHOOR ; Taseem A MOKHDOMI ; Qazi DANISH

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Keywords

Humeral fractures; Multiple trauma; Kirschner wires

Country

Republic 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.