Salvaging an Entrapped Hand. Unusual Injury, Unusual Management

An unusual case of preaxial polydactyly of the hand

Preaxial polydactyly is the most common duplication pattern in white and Asian populations (1). It is a congenital anomaly with a wide range of manifestations .Current classification do not have the capacity to classify all different types of radial polydactyly. We describe here a very rare and unusual case of bilateral preaxial polydactyly (triplication) in a woman and report the operations re...

Tandem bullet injury: an unusual variant of an unusual injury.

An unusual ankle injury

A 47-year-old woman was brought into the Emergency Department having twisted her left ankle while walking on flat ground earlier that day. There was no evidence of direct impact injury to either the left ankle or leg. Prior to this event, the patient had no medical problems, was not on any regular medication, and had no previous history of ligamentous laxity or ankle sprains. On examination, th...

An unusual cycling injury.

On admission to the District General Hospital, approximately 45 minutes after the event he complained of breathlessness and left hypochondrial discomfort. He was dyspnoeic, peripherally cyanosed and had bilateral coarse basal crepitations. Treatment involved: oxygen 51/minute, aspiration of stomach contents (400 ml clear fluid), Dexamethasone 8 mg intravenously, Ampicillin 500 mg intravenously ...

An unusual shoulder injury

Traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the axillary artery is a rare sequel of shoulder injury. We report here a unique phenomenon of delayed presentation axillary pseudoaneurysm some time after an initial blunt injury, with no evidence of gross bony injury. The gentleman presented again some weeks later after a failure of rehabilitation and progressive neurological deficit in the affected arm. Ultimate m...