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Biepicondylar fracture dislocation of the elbow joint concomitant with ulnar nerve injury
M Nuri Konya, Ahmet Aslan, Departmants of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Afyonkarahisar State Hospital, 03030 Merkez, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
Hakan Sofu, Departmants of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Suluova State Hospital, 05500 Suluova, Amasya, Turkey
Timur Yıldırım, Departmants of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Baltalimanı Bone Disease Hospital, 34470 Baltalimanı, İstanbul, Turkey
Author contributions: Konya MN, Aslan A, Sofu H and Yıldırım T contributed equally to this work; Konya MN did this patient’s care, including surgery and follow-up; Aslan A drafted and revision the manuscript; Sofu H assessed the quality of the papers, wrote and edited in English; Yıldırım T assessed the quality of the papers.
Correspondence to: Ahmet Aslan, MD, Orthopaedics Surgeon, Departmants of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Afyonkarahisar State Hospital, 03030 Merkez, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey. draaslan@mynet.com
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Received: March 1, 2013
Revised: March 23, 2013
Accepted: April 10, 2013
Published online: April 18, 2013
Revised: March 23, 2013
Accepted: April 10, 2013
Published online: April 18, 2013
Core Tip
Core tip: Elbow joint posterior fracture-dislocations accompanied by neurovascular injuries are generally require surgical intervention. In this article, we present a case of humeral biepicondylar fracture dislocation concomitant with ulnar nerve injury in a seventeen year-old male patient. We obtained a successful clinical result by applying open reduction-internal fixation of the fracture dislocation and ulnar nerve repair at the same session as surgical treatment of this case. Although elbow fracture-dislocations with neurovascular complications are rarely seen, assessment of the neurovascular status in emergency room should always be a crucial part of physical examination which may affect the clinical result of the treatment.