Open AccessIrreducible acute anterior shoulder dislocation
Author(s) -
Guha A.R.,
Jago E.R.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
international journal of clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1742-1241
pISSN - 1368-5031
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2004.00132.x
Subject(s) - medicine , anterior shoulder dislocation , dislocation , reduction (mathematics) , surgery , anterior shoulder , condensed matter physics , geometry , physics , mathematics
Summary Irreducible acute anterior dislocation of the shoulder has rarely been reported in the literature. This report describes a shoulder dislocation in a patient, which required open disimpaction of the humeral head from the glenoid before reduction of the glenohumeral dislocation could be achieved.