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Sternoclavicular physeal fracture associated with adjacent clavicle fracture in a 14-year-old boy: a case report and literature review

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We report a very rare association of a physeal fracture of the medial clavicular growth plate with a fracture of the adjacent clavicle in a 14-year-old boy who fell on his shoulder while playing football. Clinical, radiographic and computed tomographic (with three-dimensional reconstruction) features are described. Open reduction, internal fixation of the lateral fracture (with a reconstructive plate) and suture of the periosteum were performed.

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  1. Department of Paediatric Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, via Pupilli 1, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Manuele Lampasi, Valerio Bochicchio, Camilla Bettuzzi & Onofrio Donzelli

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Lampasi, M., Bochicchio, V., Bettuzzi, C. et al. Sternoclavicular physeal fracture associated with adjacent clavicle fracture in a 14-year-old boy: a case report and literature review. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthr 16, 699–702 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00167-008-0495-0

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