The Nigerian postgraduate medical journal
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Extremity injuries are common in polytrauma, which remains a leading cause of death, long hospitalisation and disability for all ages. There are few research works on the pattern of these extremity injuries in Lagos, Nigeria. ⋯ Lower extremity injuries were commoner than upper extremity injuries in polytrauma. Majority of them had multiple fractures especially among bones that have close anatomical location. Head injury was the most commonly associated injury.