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. 2000 Mar;24(1):58–59. doi: 10.1007/s002640050015

A new fracture of the forearm adjacent to a healing fracture

J M Wilson 1, N J London 1, D Limb 1
PMCID: PMC3619863  PMID: 10774866

Abstract 

A 10-year-old girl sustained closed fractures of the distal radius and ulna. This was manipulated and she was treated in an above-elbow plaster for 4 weeks. Two weeks later she was discharged, only to have a second injury to the same forearm. X-ray showed a new fracture distal to undisrupted callus.

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Accepted: 17 January 2000


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