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A 37-year-old right-hand dominant man sustained an injury to his left elbow in a physical altercation when he fell onto his left forearm, landing on a coffee table. He noted immediate onset of elbow pain and deformity, diffuse swelling, pain over his proximal ulna, and inability to range his elbow. Radiographs showed a proximal ulnar shaft fracture with anterior dislocation of the radial head. He was diagnosed with a Bado I Monteggia fracture-dislocation and underwent open reduction and internal fixation of the ulnar shaft.
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Bookman, J.S., McLaurin, T.M. (2019). Monteggia Fracture-Dislocation: Ulna Fixation Only. In: Tejwani, N. (eds) Fractures of the Elbow. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22857-6_17
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