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Case 71 - 22-year-old male with elbow pain after a fall onto outstretched hand

from Section 9.2 - Upper Extremity Trauma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2016

Bharti Khurana
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Jacob Mandell
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts
Stephen Ledbetter
Affiliation:
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
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Emergency Radiology COFFEE Case Book
Case-Oriented Fast Focused Effective Education
, pp. 545 - 551
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2016

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Morrey, B. F., and Sanchez-Sotelo, J. (2009). The elbow and its disorders. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders/Elsevier.Google Scholar
O’Driscoll, S. W., Jupiter, J. B., et al. (2003). “Difficult elbow fractures: pearls and pitfalls.” Instr Course Lect 52: 113134.Google ScholarPubMed
O’Driscoll, S. W., Jupiter, J. B., et al. (2001). “The unstable elbow.” Instr Course Lect 50: 89102.Google ScholarPubMed
Ring, D., Jupiter, J. B., et al. (2002). “Posterior dislocation of the elbow with fractures of the radial head and coronoid.” J Bone Joint Surg Am 84-(A4): 547551.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rockwood, C. A., Green, D. P., et al. (2006). Rockwood and Green’s fractures in adults. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.Google Scholar
Rodriguez-Martin, J., Pretell-Mazzini, J., et al. (2011). “Outcomes after terrible triads of the elbow treated with the current surgical protocols: a review.” Int Orthop 35(6): 851860.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Rosas, H. G., and Lee, K. S. (2010). “Imaging acute trauma of the elbow.” Semin Musculoskelet Radiol 14(4): 394411.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sheehan, S. E., Dyer, G. S., et al. (2013). “Traumatic elbow injuries: what the orthopedic surgeon wants to know.” Radiographics 33: 869888CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Whiting, W. C., and Zernicke, R. F. (2008). Biomechanics of musculoskeletal injury. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.Google Scholar

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