BACKGROUND Monteggia and equivalent lesions are relatively rare but result in severe injuries in childhood,typically affecting children between 4 and 10 years old.The diagnosis and treatment of an equivalent Monteggia...
The authors report a rare case of Monteggia bilateral fracture combining bifocal fracture of the left ulna to a mid-shaft fracture of the radius with dislocation of the radial head and on the right;a fractured ulna wi...
Introduction: Homolateral combined fractures of Monteggia and Galeazzi are very rare. Their treatment is exclusively surgical and should be proposed early in order to restore the anatomy of the antebrachial skeleton, ...
Stable and painless elbow motion is essential for activities of daily living. The elbow joint is the second most commonly dislocated joint in adults. The goals of treatment are to perform a stable fixation of all frac...
Combined type III Monteggia fracture dislocation and ipsilateral distal radial epiphyseal fracture is a very rare injury. Because of difficulty in performing the proper clinical evaluation of a child in an acute injur...
Single bone forearm fractures are usually associated with dislocation of one radio-ulnar joint. The association of ulnar fractures with dislocation of proximal radio-ulnar joint and radius fractures with distal radio-...
Objective: Monteggia fracture disloca- tion equivalent, though already described by Bado, is still an unclassified entity. We aimed to retrospectively analyze 18 cases of Monteggia variants and discuss the injury mec...