1. A rare case of peri-implant distal radius fracture☆
- Author
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M Sallì, Giulio Edoardo Vigni, Leonardo Stramazzo, Antonio D'Arienzo, Giuseppe Rovere, Alessio Cioffi, N Galvano, Lawrence Camarda, Michele D'Arienzo, Stramazzo L., Cioffi A., Rovere G., Vigni G.E., Galvano N., Salli M., D'Arienzo A., Camarda L., and D'Arienzo M.
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Osteoporosis ,lcsh:Surgery ,Ulnar head ,Case Report ,Wrist ,Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ,Peri-implant radius fracture ,03 medical and health sciences ,Fixation (surgical) ,0302 clinical medicine ,Rare case ,Settore MED/33 - Malattie Apparato Locomotore ,Medicine ,Orthopedics and Sports Medicine ,Wrist fracture ,Orthodontics ,030222 orthopedics ,Screw position ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,lcsh:RD1-811 ,medicine.disease ,Radius and ulna fracture ,body regions ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Radius hardware substitution ,Emergency Medicine ,Distal radius fracture ,Implant ,business - Abstract
A peri-implant fracture near the volar plate of distal radius represent a very rare injury. The main factor of this lesion is high energy trauma on the wrist. We report a case of a 61-year-old woman with a peri-implant fracture located just proximally to the plate and a fracture of the ulnar head that occurred after a simple fall. The patient was surgically treated by plate and screws removal. The fracture was fixed using a longer volar plate for the radial fracture and a plate for the head ulnar fracture. Different factors such as osteoporosis, BMI and screw position could influence the fracture pattern. However, considering growing use of plates for distal radius fracture fixation, the frequency of these kind of fracture will probably increase.
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- 2020