VizD Answer 2/23/2007

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A 41-year-old woman presents to the emergency department after being thrown off her bicycle while riding in the street. She complains of pain in her right arm with an inability to move it.

1. What is the name of this condition?
2. Name 2 complications of this condition?
3. What is the most common mechanism for this injury?


Answers:
1. Luxatio Erecta (Inferior Shoulder Dislocation)
2. a) Axillary nerve injury b) Rotator cuff injury c) Axillary artery thrombosis d) adhesive capsulitis
3. Hyperabdction

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