Citation

Dailiana ZH, Papatheodorou LK, Michalitsis SG, Varitimidis SE. J. Hand Surg. Am. 2013; 38(9): 1774-1778.

Affiliation

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Trauma, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece. Electronic address: dailiana@med.uth.gr.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jhsa.2013.05.030

PMID

23890394

Abstract

An elbow dislocation associated with radial head and coronoid process fractures, the terrible triad injury, has an unpredictable outcome in adults and is rare in children. We present 2 such injuries in children, 1 combined with an olecranon fracture, and both with good early clinical outcomes. However, in 1 of the 2 cases, avascular necrosis of the proximal radius was evident on radiographs.

Language: en