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A case of a transverse olecranon fracture is shown which was initially treated with open reduction and internal fixation with a plate construct that was complicated by failure of fixation and subsequently revised with removal of hardware and triceps advancement.
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Wu, C., Alrabaa, R.G., Kadiyala, R.K. (2019). Failed Olecranon Fixation. In: Tejwani, N. (eds) Fractures of the Elbow. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22857-6_13
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