Immediate identification and management of an open posterior knee dislocation: Important lessons from a case report
Traumatic knee dislocation represents a rare event, contributing to less than 0.02 % of all orthopedic trauma and 0.05 % of joint dislocations, respectively. It is critically important to recognize, identify, and appropriately manage such cases as ‘time’ is implicated as an outcome-determining facto...
Main Authors: | Diana Martinez-Urrea, Aaron Bencomo, Elaine Song, Yashendra Sethi, Inderbir Padda, Samuel Casas-Espinosa, Matthew Fulton |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-08-01
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Series: | Trauma Case Reports |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352644023000948 |
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