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This 10-year-old boy had a comminuted supracondylar fracture of the humerus 2 months ago. At the time, he had closed reduction with percutaneous pinning. The pins were routinely removed one month after the reduction. There was persistent drainage from the cutaneous pin tracts and restricted elbow range of motion at his 2-month follow-up visit. An MRI was subsequently ordered.
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(2007). Case 27. In: Pediatric and Adolescent Musculoskeletal MRI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38325-5_27
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