1168 Case Report: Lower Limb Trauma with Vascular and Orthopaedic Injury in a National Level Gymnast

Scaphoid Stress Fracture in High-Level Gymnast: A Case Report

We present the case of an 18-year-old high-level gymnast who sustained a stress fracture of the scaphoid associated with a distal radial epiphysiolysis. Clinical evaluation demonstrated decreased range of motion of the affected wrist and insidious pain on the snuffbox and tenderness on the distal radial physis. He was submitted to surgical treatment with scaphoid percutaneous fixation and radia...

A 6-Month-Old Girl with Infantile Hemangioma of Left Lower Limb, a Case Report

Introduction: Hemangiomas are the most common tumors of infancy and infantile hemangiomas are the most common vascular tumors. The etiology of this tumor is unknown. Hemangiomas commonly occur in the skin followed by the deep tissues (intramuscular) and rarely within bones. Case Presentation: Hereby, the case of a 6-month-old girl whose whole left lower limb f...

improvements in the management of trauma patients with the introduction of a lower limb trauma coordinator

a b s t r a c t mortality and morbidity from trauma continues to be a serious, ubiquitous public health problem. our short communication reports on the benefits of a dedicated lower limb trauma coordinator (lltc) to the trauma service of a busy inner-london plastics unit. this is based on a retrospective case-note based audit; performed 19 months prior to the introduction of the lltc and for 16...

Severe lower limb trauma

Severe trauma to the lower limbs, with major skin loss and the compromise of vital struc­ tures, is often difficult to treat. A combination of several factors such as ability and effort made to distinguish lesion severity – that is, to differentiate recoverable traumas from those that will inevitably progress to amputation – plays an important role. Therefore, indices were developed to facilita...

Vascular insufficiency complicating trauma to the lower limb.