Ingoe Helen, Eastwood Sarah, Elson David W, Young Claire F
Department of Orthopaedics, Cumberland Infirmary, Newtown Road, Carlisle, Cumbria CA2 7HY, UK.
J Med Case Rep. 2011 Feb 22;5:74. doi: 10.1186/1752-1947-5-74.
An unusual situation in which a below knee cast was removed after 28 months is reported. To the best of our knowledge no similar cases have been reported in the literature.
The cast was removed from the leg of a 45-year-old Caucasian woman. Significant muscle atrophy and dense skin scales were present but the underlying skin surface was relatively healthy with only small pitted 1-2 mm ulcers. No pathogenic organisms were cultured from this environment.
It seems likely that skin can tolerate cast immobilization for prolonged duration.
报告了一例罕见情况，即一个膝下石膏在28个月后被拆除。据我们所知，文献中尚未报道过类似病例。
该石膏从一名45岁的白种女性腿部拆除。存在明显的肌肉萎缩和密集的皮肤鳞屑，但皮肤下层相对健康，只有1-2毫米的小凹陷溃疡。在该环境中未培养出致病微生物。
皮肤似乎能够耐受长时间的石膏固定。
