Seventy patients who had sustained supracondylar fractures of the humerus as children were examined. Loss of carrying angle of the elbow occurred if the fracture was immobilized in a varus position during healing. Varus malalignment could have been obviated if comparative radiographs of the other elbow had been taken and the Baumann angles compared. Rotation and posterior displacement at the fr...

Objective: While surgical treatment is the most accepted method for displaced supracondylar humerus fractures in children, there little data about immobilization after surgery. The aim of study to determine whether any difference preventing loss reduction between long-arm cast and splint following pediatric fracture Patients Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis patients with treated o...

Abstract Introduction Supracondylar fractures of the humerus are most common fracture around elbow in children. There is a risk significant complications including nerve injury, vascular compromise, compartment syndrome and clinical deformity. BOAST (British Orthopaedic Association Standards for Trauma) published guideline 11 2014 (updated Oct 2020) which lists criteria that should be assessed ...

The incidence of Monteggia lesion is only 1 to 2% of all childhood forearm injuries and even less in adults [2]. Distal humerus intraarticular fractures constitute 0.5%-7% of all fractures and 30% of elbow fractures [3]. Monteggia lesion have been found to be associated with wrist lesions [1,4,5]. Wiley and Galey [1] & Arazi et al. [6] reported one case each of the ipsilateral supracondylar fra...

Introduction: Simultaneous ipsilateral fracture of the elbow and forearm (floating elbow) is an uncommon injury and treatment recommendations are controversial. The aim of our study was to evaluate the incidence of ipsilateral fractures of the upper limb and to present our experience in dealing with such injuries and to review the literature relating to this topic. The following variables were ...

An 1 1 year old boy fell off a swing onto an outstretched left hand. He attended the accident and emergency department with a painful, swollen left elbow. Radiography of the injured elbow confirmed the undisplaced supracondylar fracture (fig 1). He was treated with a broad arm sling. A week later the child was seen in the fracture clinic and overall evaluation revealed tenderness over the left ...

Supracondylar humerus fractures (SHF) are seen more than half of all fractures in the elbow. SHF may cause to vascular and neurologic injury. The most causes of the vascular injury are thrombosis with intimal tear, brachial artery entrapment in the fracture site, compression of the artery due to deformity/swelling and partial or complete transection of the artery (by the perforating spike of th...

Upper extremity fractures account for up to 90% of paediatric fractures. Amongst these fractures, Supracondylar Humerus fractures are one of the most common requiring surgical intervention and have a high prevalence of associated short term complications such as nerve injuries and long term complications such as cubitus varus. The epidemiology, classifications, clinical evaluation and complicat...

The use of regional anaesthesia techniques in the presence of degenerative neurological disease is a relative contraindication. The subsequent reticence of anaesthesiologists is perhaps reflected in the absence of any published cases of a CharcotMarie-Tooth (CMT) patient that received a peripheral nerve blockade for surgery. We report a CMT patient, who presented with a supracondylar distal hum...