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ArticleJournal of orthopaedic case reports2024

A 65-Year-Old Female with Missed Open Clavicle Fracture and Subsequent Fracture-Related Infection, Treated with Distal Clavicle Resection.

Kevin M Lehane, Andrew S Bi, Allison Morgan, Sehar Resad-Ferati, Abhishek Ganta, Sanjit R Konda

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Article in Journal of orthopaedic case reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Open Clavicle Fracture: A Case Report.JNMA; journal of the Nepal Medical Association · 2025
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6 authors.

Kevin M LehaneDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, United States.
Andrew S BiDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, United States.
Allison MorganDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, United States.
Sehar Resad-FeratiDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, United States.
Abhishek GantaDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, United States.
Sanjit R KondaDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital, New York, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Introduction: Open clavicle fractures are rare, and there are no current reported cases in the literature of a missed open clavicle with resultant fracture-related infection and osteomyelitis. Case Report: We present a 65-year-old female with no reported medical history, who presented to our institution with left clavicular pain and wound drainage 8 days after she was struck by a motor vehicle in her home country of Guyana. She was found to have a missed open clavicle fracture with an associated severe infection. She was subsequently treated with irrigation, debridement, and distal clavicle excision. Conclusion: We present this unique case with a potential procedure which could prove beneficial in cases of infection, trauma, or oncologic lesions in which the distal clavicle is deemed unsalvageable.

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bone infectionclavicular osteomyelitisdistal clavicle excisionmissed open fractureneglected fractureOpen clavicle fractureosteomyelitis

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PMID39253669
PMCPMC11381044

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