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Comminuted Scapular Body Fracture after Seizure

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DOI: 10.23958/ijirms/vol07-i08/1474· Pages: 411 - 412· Vol. 7, No. 08, (2022)· Published: August 10, 2022
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Abstract

The current case study deals with Comminuted Scapular Body Fracture after Seizure. Diagnosis of the epilepsy defined as two or more unprovoked seizures. The prevalence of epilepsy is found to be .5 – 2%. People with epilepsy are at risk of fractures either due to fall, muscle contractions that lead for avulsion fractures or loss of protective mechanism during seizures. Muscles contraction during tonic phase of seizures can result in variety of musculoskeletal injuries that include shoulder dislocation or fractures, spine vertebral bodies fractures and acetabular fractures.

Keywords

SeizureBody FractureComminuted Scapularepilepsymuscle contractions
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Abdulmohsen Hamad Hamed Alhamyani
Orthopedic Resident, Orthopedic Department, Alhada Hospital, Taif, 26311, Saudi Arabia
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Mokhtar Ahmed Alsayed
Orthopedic Specialist, Orthopedic Department, Alhada Hospital, Taif, 26311, Saudi Arabia
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