Case ReportFracture of an os acromiale with associated rupture of the coracoclavicular ligaments
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Case report
A 43-year-old, right-handed, stunt coordinator presented to the out-patients clinic, having been involved in an accident during a stunt 5 months previously, riding a motorcycle at moderate speed. He had hit a car and highsided, landing on the point of his left shoulder. There was immediate pain in the shoulder with numbness of the arm and weakness of all shoulder movements. There were no other significant injuries as a result of this accident. The patient made an initial recovery with return of
Discussion
In 1937, Liberson7 wrote of a case in which he was involved giving an a expert opinion. A 38-year-old longshoreman had injured his shoulder and radiographs appeared to show a fracture of the acromion. Liberson disproved the case by taking radiographs of both shoulders in the supero-inferior position. These showed bilateral symmetrical gaps in the acromion, ie, os acromiale. The plaintiff's physician was not convinced that the gap in the acromion was because of non-ossification of the
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