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A 12-year-old presented with a grade 3B open tibial fracture, bone loss, and a pulseless left lower extremity after he was struck by a car while riding his all-terrain vehicle (ATV). Multiple irrigation and debridements were done and a monolateral external fixator was applied. This was eventually converted to a circular fixator for bone transport, and his tibia healed with a leg-length discrepancy, which was treated with magnetically controlled lengthening at skeletal maturity.
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Amoli, M., Sawyer, J.R. (2020). Tibial Shaft Fracture with Bone Loss. In: Iobst, C., Frick, S. (eds) Pediatric Orthopedic Trauma Case Atlas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29980-8_128
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