Case Report
Overlooked Fracture of the Inferior Scapular Angle Treated Conservatively
Table 1
Details of the previously reported cases of inferior scapular angle fracture (part 1).
| Case no. | Year | Author(s) | Patient age/sex/affected side | Causes of injury | Direct trauma |
| 1 | 1924 | Longabaugh [26] | 26/male/? | Automobile accident | ? | 2 | 1954 | Kelly [7] | ?/?/? | Electroconvulsive therapy | ? | 3 | 1975 | Imatani [18] | ?/?/? | ? | ? | 4 | 1977 | Peraino et al. [23] | 57/male/left | Grand mal convulsion | — | 5 | 1981 | Hayes and Zehr [17]17 | 25/male/right | ? | ? | 6 | 1982 | Heyse-Moore and Stoker [8] | 70/male/right | Fall forwards | — | 7 | | | 50/male/right | Electric shock, fall backwards | ? | 8 | | | 13/female/left | Tobogganing accident | ? | 9 | 1998 | Gupta et al. [21] | 45/male/left | A pallet of bricks fell on him | Healed laceration | 10 | 1998 | Brindle and Coen [15] | 17/male/right | Wrestling (arm-bar) | — | 11 | 2002 | Kaminsky and Pierce [16] | 16/male/right | Football tackle (indirect) | ? | 12 | 2004 | Franco et al. [22] | 47/male/left | DM, hemodialysis, prednisone, prolonged cough | — | 13 | 2010 | Mansha et al. [19] | 31/male/right | Thrown from a car | + | 14 | 2016 | Speigner et al. [20] | 51/male/right | Fell down the stairs and directly hit the inferior angle | + | 15 | | Our case | 20/female/left | Automobile accident | ? |
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?: unknown; DM: diabetes mellitus.
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