The 'upside-down' radial head: a diagnostic challenge.
The author describes a rare, traumatic dislocation of the radial head in an 8 year old girl. Only four similar cases were found in the literature. The danger of misdiagnosis and the life-long disability can be avoided by careful examination of the post-reduction radiograph.
Shtarker
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Department of Orthopedics, Western Galille Medical Center, Nahariya, and Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Stahl
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Ross
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Bialik
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D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation