OBJECTIVES To describe the surgical treatment and patient outcomes of chronic elbow dislocations. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING Two tertiary referral centers. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS All patients with surgically treated chronic elbow dislocation with no associated articular fracture from January 2009 to January 2015. INTERVENTION Review of patient demographics, injury chronicity, s...

We report a rare case of concurrent palmar lunate dislocation of the left wrist combined with a posterior dislocation of the left elbow joint in a 40-year-old man. He sustained both injuries after falling onto his outstretched left hand. The elbow was reduced by the closed method. The wrist was treated with open reduction with carpal tunnel decompression and fixation with a Kirschner wire throu...

The natural course of untreated posterior lateral rotatory instability of the elbow is unclear. A case of elbow arthrosis with progressing deformity and flexion contracture after an episode of elbow dislocation about 20 years ago presented the possibility the long term outcome of untreated posterior lateral rotatory instability of the elbow.

Posterolateral rotatory instability (PLRI) is caused by injury to the lateral collateral ligament complex, usually from elbow dislocation; fracture dislocation, iatrogenic injury, or varus malalignment of the elbow. This is characterized by the external rotation of the radius and ulna in reference to the distal humerus. Further, it is manifested as posterior subluxation of the radial head in re...

In this report divergent dislocation of the elbow in an 11-year-old boy and its outcome is presented. His right upper limb was trapped in a water irrigation machine and sustained an extreme pronation thrust through the hyperextended elbow. He had also suffered from a segmental fracture of both bones of the forearm and a fracture of the humerus. The median and ulnar nerves were functionless at h...

A 50-year-old man, right-handed farmer, was admitted to the emergency department after undergoing an agriculture accident. Physical examination on admission revealed a left wrist disarticulation with a deformity of the ipsilateral elbow and forearm (A and B). Plain radiography showed a fracture of the ulna shaft as well as dislocation of the radial head. This radiological finding, also called M...

Eighteen patients with marginal depressed or comminuted fractures of the head of the radius, nine of whom had an associated posterior dislocation of the elbow, had a Silastic replacement carried out shortly after injury. After an average follow-up of twenty-six months satisfactory clinical results were observed in seventeen cases; three prostheses broke. The prosthesis has been particularly eff...

A total of 33 children were treated for acute traumatic dislocation of the elbow between 1994 and 2002; 30 dislocations were posterior and three anterior. Eight children had a pure dislocation and 25 had an associated fracture of the elbow. Two had compound injuries. Two children had injury to the ulnar nerve, one to the radial nerve and one to the median nerve together with injury to the brach...

BACKGROUND Open dislocations are infrequent, often associated with damage to the neuro vascular structures. We present an unusual case of an open antero-lateral dislocation of the elbow, which was not associated with any vascular or neural injury. CASE PRESENTATION A 34 year female dance instructor sustained an open dislocation of her elbow. Surgical exploration was undertaken. No major neuro...

We present six patients with chronic dislocation of the elbow who were treated by primary semiconstrained total elbow arthroplasty. All were women with a mean age of 65 years (51 to 76), the mean interval between dislocation and surgery was 17 weeks (5 to 52) and the mean follow-up 58 months (24 to 123). The most dramatic improvement was in function. The mean American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeon...