Orthopedics & Traumatology
Online ISSN : 1349-4333
Print ISSN : 0037-1033
ISSN-L : 0037-1033
Two Cases of the Coracoid Process Fracture
T. Hisatomi
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1969 Volume 19 Issue 1 Pages 35-37

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Coracoid process fracture is very rare injury. This injury is produced mainly by the direct violence and rerely by the muscle contraction. Recently I had two cases of the coracoid fracture.
Case I: A male, aged 14 years, fell down and was beaten on his left shoulder when he played the baseball. Radiograph showed a fracture on the base of the coracoid process.
Case 2: A male, aged 24 years, rugby player, noticed suddenly the sever pain and the limitation of the motion on his right shoulder in the scimmage. Radiograph showed the sprain fracture of the coracoid process.
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