title: Another angry adolescent: another boxer's fracture?
abstract: Hand injuries are a common chief complaint in the pediatric population presenting for emergency care. Adolescents, in particular, often present with trauma to their hands after punching objects. The most frequent result of this action is a fracture to one or more of their metacarpals, also known as a boxer's fracture. However, we present a case with this common mechanism that resulted in an uncommon injury, carpometacarpal joint dislocations.
authors.affiliation: From the Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH.
authors.forename: Brendan J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Kilbane
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000786:Anger; D052737:Carpometacarpal Joints / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000293:injuries*; D006230:Hand Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D004204:Joint Dislocations / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011859:Radiography