91 year old woman suffering a fall by imbalance and right elbow hits the ground. has elbow pain and swollen, edematous, swollen, retaining the flexion-extension and supination. There is pain and crepitus when palpating the back of the elbow.
The image shows the fracture line, transverse, in olecranon without displacement (type I). We proceed to semiflexion elbow immobilization with plaster, in the coming weeks.
Such fractures are more common in young adults and often tend to be displaced fragments. (Picture taken with mobile phone)
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