{"title":"13-year-old-male with a left open humerus fracture with concomitant intramuscular mid-substance biceps rupture: A case report","authors":"Neil Pathak, Xuan Luo, Matthew D. Riedel","doi":"10.1016/j.tcr.2024.101118","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A 13-year-old male presented with an open left humeral shaft fracture with intramuscular distal biceps rupture after being struck by a car. He underwent washout, humerus fixation, and open biceps repair. Immediate postoperative course was complicated by deep infection and failure of biceps repair. He subsequently required two additional surgeries. One year later, he exhibited full, painless elbow range of motion and biceps strength. This case is the first to report an open humeral shaft fracture with concomitant intramuscular, mid-substance biceps rupture in a pediatric patient. This was successfully treated with a full functional recovery.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":23291,"journal":{"name":"Trauma Case Reports","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11650314/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Trauma Case Reports","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352644024001419","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A 13-year-old male presented with an open left humeral shaft fracture with intramuscular distal biceps rupture after being struck by a car. He underwent washout, humerus fixation, and open biceps repair. Immediate postoperative course was complicated by deep infection and failure of biceps repair. He subsequently required two additional surgeries. One year later, he exhibited full, painless elbow range of motion and biceps strength. This case is the first to report an open humeral shaft fracture with concomitant intramuscular, mid-substance biceps rupture in a pediatric patient. This was successfully treated with a full functional recovery.
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Trauma Case Reports is the only open access, online journal dedicated to the publication of case reports in all aspects of trauma care and accident surgery. Case reports on all aspects of trauma management, surgical procedures for all tissues, resuscitation, anaesthesia and trauma and tissue healing will be considered for publication by the international editorial team and will be subject to peer review. Bringing together these cases from an international authorship will shed light on surgical problems and help in their effective resolution.