Commonly missed orthopaedic injuries.

Commonly missed orthopaedic injuries.

CROSSING the road is safe enough-but only for those who always take care. The child who relaxes his vigilance is heading for disaster. The Casualty Officer is in a like condition. Most bone injuries are obvious even to the patient and are easily confirmed by the doctor; but without constant care errors are inevitable and, as with crossing the road, the penalty is high. The object of this short ...

Commonly missed peritalar injuries.

Because of the effect on hindfoot kinematics, missed or delayed diagnosis of peritalar injuries often results in impairment. The seemingly innocuous nature of these injuries, subtle radiographic findings, and low incidence limit familiarity, thereby increasing the likelihood of misdiagnosis. Because of delay in diagnosis, salvage arthrodesis may be necessary to restore function to the extremity...

Commonly missed charges.

Posterolateral corner injuries of the knee: a serious injury commonly missed.

We retrospectively reviewed the hospital records of 68 patients who had been referred with an injury to the posterolateral corner of the knee to a specialist knee surgeon between 2005 and 2009. These injuries were diagnosed based on a combination of clinical testing and imaging and arthroscopy when available. In all, 51 patients (75%) presented within 24 hours of their injury with a mean presen...

Missed tendon injuries.

The timing of the repair of divided tendons may be debated but in most cases a clearly divided tendon should be repaired primarily and, whether or not primary repair is indicated, 'the ideal treatment programme is immediate surgery performed by an experienced surgeon' (McGrouther et al., 1990). If a tendon injury is missed, deformity may occur, the patient may need further surgical procedures, ...