Orthop Traumatol Sur
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Orthop Traumatol Sur · May 2011
Proximal clavicle physeal fracture-separation mimicking an anterior sterno-clavicular dislocation.
Proximal physeal fracture-separation of the clavicle is a very rare injury occurring in the adolescent and in the young adult which involves a contact loss with fracture between the clavicle and its cartilaginous ossification center similar in appearance to a sternoclavicular dislocation. The authors report an unusual case of a proximal physeal fracture-separation of the clavicle with avulsion of sternoclavicular periosteal and ligamentous structures without vasculonervous injury in a 16-year-old young person. ⋯ Surgical management consisted in costoclavicular ligament and periosteum reattachment associated with reduction of the fracture-separation and pin fixation. This repair demonstrated a successful outcome at 8-month follow-up.