Luxatio erecta—two cases without direct injury

Rae, Paul; Sylvester, Bruce

doi:10.1016/0020-1383(88)90115-5

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“…Two mechanisms of injury have been described for inferior shoulder dislocation. First, an indirect mechanism of the injury involves a sudden and forceful hyperabduction to an already abducted arm [5,6]. The second mechanism of injury involves direct axial loading on a fully abducted arm with the elbow extended and forearm pronated [7][8][9].…”

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Inferior Dislocation of Shoulder Complicated with Undisplaced Greater Tuberosity Fracture, Rupture of the Supraspinatus Tendon, and Brachial Plexus Injury in the Elderly: Case Report and Literature Review

Vasiliadis

Kalitsis

Kantas

et al. 2020

Case Reports in Orthopedics

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Inferior dislocation of the shoulder, also called luxatio erecta, is a rare form of the otherwise common shoulder dislocation. It appears in less than 0.5% of all shoulder dislocations. An awareness of associated potential axillary artery injury, brachial plexus complications, and rotator cuff tears is important in this rare entity and should be excluded with a high index of suspicion. In our case report, we have an 83-year-old female who inferiorly dislocated her dominant shoulder with brachial plexus injury and musculotendinous injury, which was caused by an accidental fall. The dislocation was manually reduced at the emergency department. After 18 months of conservative treatment with physical therapy, the range of motion and muscle strength of the shoulder recovered to a satisfactory mobile level according to the patient’s demands.

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Inferior Dislocation of Shoulder Complicated with Undisplaced Greater Tuberosity Fracture, Rupture of the Supraspinatus Tendon, and Brachial Plexus Injury in the Elderly: Case Report and Literature Review

Vasiliadis

Kalitsis

Kantas

et al. 2020

Case Reports in Orthopedics

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“…In this study, we reviewed the mechanism of injuries of all cases (57 articles) and classified the injuries into seven parts: Falling accidents (25 articles),[ 3 8 9 10 12 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 54 ] accidents related to working (5 articles),[ 12 14 35 36 37 38 ] sport related injuries (9 articles),[ 2 19 36 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 ] traffic accidents (10 articles),[ 4 13 15 45 46 47 48 49 50 57 ] alcholism, epilepsy, syncope, seizure and sleeping related injuries (6 articles),[ 5 8 18 40 51 52 ] unusual age (infant) with unusual mechanism (1 article),[ 53 ] boat accident (1 article)[ 54 ] [ Table 1 ].…”

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“…We found 20 articles that reported neurovascular injury at admission time (16 articles reported neuorologic injury-4 articles reported vascular injury)[ 4 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 34 37 40 42 45 46 47 48 51 54 56 57 ] [ Table 2 ].…”

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Luxatio erecta humeri: Report of a swimming injury with analysis of the mechanism of the injury and associated injuries in literature

Gökkuş

Sağtaş

Saylık³

et al. 2015

J Emerg Trauma Shock

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Inferior shoulder dislocation also referred to as luxatio erecta is an unusual and rare type of shoulder dislocation. Its incidence is about 0.5% among all shoulder dislocations. After an exhaustive search of all the available literature we were unable to find a swimming accident case that did not have other associated injuries and an uneventful reduction. The mechanism of the injury was mostly related to direct axial loading and indirect hyperabduction lever arm. We would like to emphasize the importance of this being a swimming accident, a type of accident that requires awareness of the possibility of dangerous asphyxia injuries caused by panic in the water (swimming pool, river, lake, sea, etc.). We described the nature of the injury and review the literature concerning the mechanism of the injury and associated neurovascular impairment at admission time. We also presented a supplemental video to contribute to the education of young residents and orthopedic surgeons.

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