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Complications of Osseous Trauma

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There are many complications of skeletal trauma, although in most cases fracture healing is uncomplicated. Complications can result from direct trauma to bone and soft tissue or from the treatment of the fractures. Complications may be systemic or local and involve the bones or the adjacent soft tissues and joints. For initial diagnosis and follow-up examinations, radiographic examination is as important as the clinical examination and sometimes even more important. In this chapter, an overview is presented of the various complications in which radiology plays a role in evaluation and the imaging appearances of these complications.

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  1. University of Bern, Department of diagnostic, interventional and pediatric Radiology, Inselspital Bern, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland

    Till D. Lerch, Johannes Heverhagen, Dechen Wangmo Tshering Vogel & Suzanne E. Anderson

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  1. Envision Physician Services, Plantation, FL, USA

    Thomas Pope

  2. Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  3. Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA

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    Lawrence White

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Lerch, T.D., Heverhagen, J., Tshering Vogel, D.W., Anderson, S.E. (2023). Complications of Osseous Trauma. In: Pope, T., Bloem, J.L., Morrison, W.B., Wilson, D.J., White, L. (eds) Musculoskeletal Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57376-8_39-1

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