Showing posts with label ORIF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ORIF. Show all posts

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Another elbow ORIF...

This one isn't as straight forward with the healing process.
It's a supracondylar fracture of the elbow. The patient underwent surgery including an olecranon osteotomy fixation.
The screws other than the olcranon fixation got infected. There is also degeneration in the elbow joint itself.
Movement with the patient was difficult. They couldn't supinate the arm so i had to do the AP view (or for this case PA) cross-table.
While there is bone growth from the previous films, the likelihood of easy movement is very unlikely.


Monday, June 4, 2012

Post-op olecranon fracture

Here the patient is is 2 weeks out of an ORIF procedure. I took them out of the wrappings and splint but left the staples in. During the visit with the doctor they were removed.