Case Report

Traumatic Floating Clavicle: A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

Review of the existing literature on floating clavicle.

No.AuthorYear publishedNo. of patientsAge of patientsTreatment modality

1Gearen and Petty [3]1982127Surgical
2Jain [5]1984177Conservative
3Cook and Horowitz [19]1987160Conservative
4Echo et al. [16]1988120Surgical
5Thomas and Friedman [17]1989128Surgical
6 Sanders et al. [9]1990626, 35, 20, 41, 67, 214 surgical 
2 conservative
7Gaudernak and Poigenfurst [20]19911 17 Surgical
8Arenas et al. [14]1993126Surgical
9Tanlin [21]19961 19Surgical
10Eni-Olotu and Hobbs [4]1997163Conservative
11 Le Huec et al. [11]1998258  Surgical
18
12Akpinar et al. [22]2002155Surgical
13Scapinelli [13]20041 18Surgical
14Argintar et al. [23]20111 20Surgical
15Pa a and Kalandra [24]2011117Surgical
16Yurdakul et al. [25]2012171Conservative
17Argintar et al. [23]2011155Surgical
18Sethi et al. [26]2012132Surgical
19Schuh et al. [18]2012123Surgical
20Jiang et al. [27]20121 21Surgical
21Dudda et al. [28]20121 70Conservative
22Daolagupu et al. [29]2013141Surgical
23Dudda et al. [28]20131 60Conservative
24Daolagupu et al. [29]20131 12 Surgical