Open AccessTreatment of missed Monteggia lesion in children: Case report
Author(s) -
Zoran Vukaŝinović,
Vesna Jovanovic,
Desanka Mitrovic,
Nemanja Slavković
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.135
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 2406-0895
pISSN - 0370-8179
DOI - 10.2298/sarh1102099v
Subject(s) - medicine , ulna , reduction (mathematics) , elbow , radial head , forearm , surgery , ligament , osteotomy , radial head fracture , geometry , mathematics
A Monteggia lesion is a dislocation of the radial head associated with a fracture with the proximal third of the ulna. It is rare in children and the dislocation of the radial head is often missed at the time of injury. There are a lot of described treatment methods: open reduction of the radial head and reconstruction of the annular ligament combined with ulnar osteotomy, the same method without reconstruction of the annular ligament, gradual lengthening and angulation of the ulna by Ilizarov method without the opening of radiocapitelar joint.