Extremity radiograph unknown 12

Anshuman Bansal

JHU SOM

abansal1@jhmi.edu

David Marker

JHU SOM

dmarker@jhmi.edu

Publication Date: 2009-09-11

Findings

This patient comes in complaining of shoulder pain after a football game.

  1. Can you determine what type of injury the patient suffered?

    Shoulder dislocation
    Correct! The humeral head is displaced anteriorly and inferiorly. It is no longer articulating fully with the glenoid fossa of the scapula.
    Clavicle fracture
    Incorrect. The clavicle is intact and without fracture. Try again!
    Humerus fracture
    Incorrect. The part of the humerus visible on this x-ray is without fracture. Try again!
    Rib fracture
    Incorrect. All of the visible ribs here are without fracture. Try again!

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