Monday, August 4, 2014

x-ray of the week

The story is thus: Motorcycle accident...six months ago.  He still can't walk so he came to the doctor.  To start, take a quick look at these normal knee x-rays:

This is his x-ray:
can you spot the difference?

totally dislocated
in diagram form (from crashingpatient.com) 
Normally, a posterior knee dislocation would be a surgical emergency. But, after six months, it was hard to be in a hurry to do anything  It might have to wait for the orthopedic surgeon...and even then there may not be much we can do.

1 comment:

quasispice said...

Here's my contribution to crazy x-rays seen in Niger! http://heart4healing-niger.blogspot.com/2014/09/medical-marvels.html