Displaced Salter-Harris I fracture of the distal ulna physis

• Published in: BMJ case reports Vol. 12; no. 8; p. e230783
• Main Authors: Clesham, Kevin, Piggott, Robert P, Sheehan, Eoin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.08.2019; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Case Report
• Subjects: Athletic Injuries - diagnostic imaging; Athletic Injuries - surgery; Calcification; Case reports; Child; Closed Fracture Reduction; Epidemiology; Female; Fractures; Humans; Injuries; Patients; Pediatrics; Population; Radiography; Radius Fractures - diagnostic imaging; Radius Fractures - surgery; Salter-Harris Fractures - diagnostic imaging; Salter-Harris Fractures - surgery; Trauma; Treatment Outcome; Ulna Fractures - diagnostic imaging; Ulna Fractures - surgery; Unusual Presentation of More Common Disease/Injury; Writing; paediatrics; orthopaedics; orthopaedic and trauma surgery; radiology

A 10-year-old girl presented to the emergency department having sustained a fall onto an outstretched left hand while playing soccer. Clinical and radiographical assessment identified a Salter-Harris I distal ulna fracture, as well as a buckle fracture of the distal radius. The injury was closed, an...