Fracture of lateral condyle of humerus in an adult fixed with cancellous cannulated screws.
Here is an AP view

AP View Fracture of Lateral Condyle of Humerus Fixed With Cannulated Screws
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Fracture of lateral condyle of humerus in an adult fixed with cancellous cannulated screws.
Here is an AP view

AP View Fracture of Lateral Condyle of Humerus Fixed With Cannulated Screws
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Anteroposterior and lateral view xrays of a young adult with fracture of distal humerus extending up to diaphysis.
The patient was treated with open reduction and internal fixation using long recon plates and cancellous screws
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An unusual of fracture of upper end of ulna
The fracture involves vertical split upper part of shaft of ulna along with coronoid process of ulna.
There is also dislocation of radial head
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Intercondylar fracture of humerus is an intra-articular fracture and almost always require a surgical treatment..
Following xrays are of 34 yers old young adult male who fell down while running after to catch a bus. Following is the anteroposterior xray.
Here is the lateral view of the same injury. [Read more...]
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I could not find associated data with this one. But the type of injury is worth sharing. The following xrays are anteroposterior and lateral views of a patient with elbow injury severe enough to cause fracture of olecranon and concomitant fracture of lateral condyle of humerus.
Fracture of olecranon is better appreciated in lateral view (On right side) whereas fracture of lateral condyle is visualized very well in anteroposterior view.

Concomitant Fracture of Lateral Condyle of Humerus With Fracture of Olecroanon
Fracture of the olecranon is comminuted.
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Monteggia fracture dislocation is the term for the upper limb injury that involves fracture of the ulnar shaft and dislocation of the radial head.
Following anteroposterior xray belongs to 28 year old young adult who sustained this injury in a motor vehicle accident.

Fracture Ulna With Lateral Dislocation of Radial Head
The radial head is dislocated to lateral side and there is a comminution in fracture of ulnar shaft.
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Fracture capitellum in left upper limb of a 34 years male was operated using Herbert Screws[Headless Screws]. Associated fracture of medial epicondyle was fixed with a cancellous screw.
Here are the postoperative xrays.
First the AP view
.Fracture Capitellum and Medial Epicondyle Humerus Fixed With Herbert and Cancellous Screws - Anteroposterior View
The lateral view given below was taken at different interval, probably in immediate postoperative period as you can see the plaster as well. [Read more...]
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Surgical exposure of elbow being carried out through lateral approach.
Please note that the exposure in the image is only subcutaneous tissue deep and exposure was carried for radial head fracture.
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Radial head excision is treatment meted in case of radial head fractures.

Xray of Elbow After Radial Head Has Been Excised
This xray of elbow [lateral view] in the picture is of of 37 years male who had undergone radial head excision about 3 months ago. There appears slight amount of new bone formation.
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34 years old male came to our OPD one and half year of surgery for intercondylar fracture of right humerus. His main complaint was stiffness of the elbow and pain.
On examination his elbow was fixed in 90 degrees of flexion contracture with only few degrees of movement permissible and movements were painful too. The incision scars were well healed and there was no draining sinus.
His previous record was examined and he had sustained an intercondylar fracture 18 months back and was operated for.
Earliest xray available was after 4 months of surgery. Here are those xrays

Intercondylar Fracture Not United After 4 Months Of Surgery
As evident on xray, the intercondylar fracture had been fixed with locking compression plate on lateral side and reconstruction plate on medial side and intercondylar fracture has been fixed with cancellous screws. On further scrutiny, the reconstruction plate appears bent more than it should. [Read more...]
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