title: A bony foreign body found in a patient with no bony injury: a case report.
abstract: Open fractures with bone loss are a common occurrence following high energy trauma. But usually the bone fragments are lost on the roadside and are not usable. We report a patient who was involved in a head-on collision between two wheelers and presented with a bone fragment embedded in his thigh. Radiological survey revealed no bony injury in that patient. Another patient, who presented at the same time, sustained a segmental fracture of shaft femur and was found to have lost a bone fragment that was similar to the one found in previous patient. CT scan with 3D reconstruction revealed this missing fragment to be the same as that found in previous patient. Both patients had a history of head-on collision while travelling on a two-wheeler. Present case report throws some highlights on the probable mechanism of injury.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Sawai Man Singh Medical College and Hospital, Jaipur-302004, Rajasthan, India.
authors.forename: Devwart
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kaushik
authors.forename: Narendra
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Joshi
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Shiv Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Goyal
authors.forename: Kamlesh
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Sahil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gaba
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000293:injuries; D005547:Foreign Bodies; D013848:Thigh / Q000293:injuries*