Olive Alistair, Jessup Jonathan, Mangat Karanjit
Warwick Medical School, Medical School Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
Orthopaedic Department, Warwick Hospital, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, Warwick, UK.
J Surg Case Rep. 2021 Sep 27;2021(9):rjab430. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjab430. eCollection 2021 Sep.
Fractures of the proximal humerus are commonly seen, and skin puckering is a rare clinical sign associated with such injuries. It is a relative indication to proceed with urgent surgical management due to the pending threat to soft tissue viability. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report to describe a spontaneous un-puckering of the soft tissues in such an injury and it resulted in subsequent successful non-operative treatment.