Locking plates for displaced fractures of the lateral end of clavicle: Potential pitfalls
A 38-year-old right-hand dominant female fractured her right lateral clavicle when she slipped on wet patio decking []. Within a week of the injury, she had ORIF of her right clavicle in February 2012 using a Synthes Small Fragment Locking Compression Plate System []. The postoperative radiographs showed subluxation of the AC joint []. Her OSS 4 weeksafter surgery was 13 [].