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elbow fracture
- child: supracondylar fracture of humerus
- adult: radial head fracture
fat pads
- anterior seen normally, displaced proximally by effusion
- POSTERIOR ==> elbow jt effusion
radiologic lines
- anterior humeral line: should pass thru capitellum
- radio-capitellar line: should bisect radius + capitellum
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Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD - 2 February 1995
Last updated: 1 October 2013
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