Open AccessPosttraumatic nonunion of the clavicle in a 13-year-old boy causing an arteriovenous fistula
Author(s) -
Feiran Wu,
Nicholas Marriage,
Adil Ismaeel,
Vince Smyth,
Musa Kaleem,
Tahir Abbas Khan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.122312
Subject(s) - medicine , clavicle , nonunion , arteriovenous fistula , surgery , radiology , anatomy
Fractures of the clavicle are one of the most common injuries to the bone in childhood, but posttraumatic nonunion of pediatric clavicle fractures are extremely rare, with only isolated reports in literature.