Published in:
01-11-2010 | Original Article
Musculoskeletal: what’s different in children? Three-year-old with sore elbow; unknown type of injury
Author:
Leonard E. Swischuk
Published in:
Emergency Radiology
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Issue 6/2010
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Excerpt
This 3-year-old female presented to our Emergency Room (ER) after 3 days of not wanting to use the right arm. The mother related that 3 days prior to the visit the patient was involved in some type of accident at home. She was not in the room where the accident occurred but she knew that something had happened to the patient. Actually, she thought that the problem could be a “nursemaids” elbow and she tried to reduce the elbow on the day after the suspected injury. The patient did not get better and continued to have pain for the next 2 days. There was significant decreased range of movement and so the mother decided to bring the little girl into our ER. …