Bipolar Dislocation of the Clavicle: A Report of Two Cases with Different Injury Patterns and a Literature Review

Table 1

Summary of reported patients who underwent conservative treatment.

First author	Year	Sex	Age (y)	ACJ dislocation (direction/Rockwood’s type)	SCJ dislocation	Described result
Gearen [8]	1982	M	27	Inferior/NA	Anterior	Functionally good; residual deformity at the SCJ
Jain [3]	1984	M	77	Superior/(III)	(Anterior)	Good
Cook [15]	1987	M	20	Superior/III	Anterior	Functionally good; residual deformity at the SCJ
Sanders [19]	1990	F	67	Posterior/IV	Anterior	Occasional tenderness and deformity at the lateral end
Sanders [19]	1990	F	21	Undescribed/NA	Anterior	Symptomatic
Eni-Olotu [16]	1997	M	63	Inferior/(IV)	Superior^#	Residual pain at the lateral end requiring surgery
Pang^+ [14]	2003	M	19	Superior/II	Anterior	Occasional discomfort and residual deformity at both ends

NA: not applicable; parentheses mean that the author(s) did not directly mention the result, but it could be interpreted using the description and/or figures in the articles; ⁺the authors reported two patients, one of whom was excluded because he/she had a fracture; the authors stated that type IV was the most common type of dislocation among their six cases; ^#the authors did not mention otherwise; it was impossible to interpret the direction of the dislocation with their images.