ALLMedicine™ Monteggia Fracture Center

Jun 14th, 2022 - Monteggia fracture-dislocation refers to traumatic ulnar fractures and dislocation of the radial head, which is one of the most frequently missed injuries, especially in children. The most widespread attitude towards chronic Monteggia lesion is th...

May 12th, 2022 - Open pediatric Monteggia fracture-dislocations are a relatively uncommon injury pattern, with limited numbers reported in previous series. Open fracture-dislocations frequently represent more severe injury patterns with potential for contamination...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Background Radial head subluxation, also known as pulled elbow or nursemaid’s elbow, is one of the most common upper-extremity injuries in infants and young children who present to the emergency department (ED). Reduction of the subluxated radial ...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Background Radial head subluxation, also known as pulled elbow or nursemaid’s elbow, is one of the most common upper-extremity injuries in infants and young children who present to the emergency department (ED). Reduction of the subluxated radial ...

Apr 27th, 2022 - Background Radial head subluxation, also known as pulled elbow or nursemaid’s elbow, is one of the most common upper-extremity injuries in infants and young children who present to the emergency department (ED). Reduction of the subluxated radial ...

Definitive Management Older studies, including a high proportion of patients that received non-operative management, reported inconsistent and unsatisfactory outcomes in treating Monteggia fractures.[17–19] The current treatment of choice is opera...

Outcomes Within the past 10 years, several retrospective case series have reported their outcomes of Monteggia fractures (Supplemental Table 1, Supplemental Digital Content 2, http://links.lww.com/JAAOS/A514).[10,34,40–42] We made several broad co...