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cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/54296827
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In one of the initial reposts, someone commented there was a complete fracture and the separated part was absorbed naturally over time.
Might have been bs, as it’s known to happen.
It’s always a great feeling when a doctor looks at something from you and then calls their colleagues to look as well…
Back in school went to the school clinic for strep throat, and upon listening to my heart, he said “just a moment”, then pulled in the med student and quizzed them on what they were hearing and how it was abnormal.
Which led to a follow up echocardiogram where the technician was explaining everything we were looking at and what it was, until a very specific view then she shut up, tapped a bunch of things on the device, printed out something, then moved to another view and resumed describing everything except what she just saw.
How… reassuring… did she ever tell you what that was about?
Oh the tech wasn’t allowed to discuss medically relevant stuff.
The doctor followed up and I have an essentially benign heart anomaly. Growing up first doctors didn’t think it was worth exploring, then doctors said it went away, that was my first visit to a doctor after moving to a bigger city and those doctors were shocked a doctor would say it went away and not even bother to image it before dismissing it.
My eye doctor did that on one of my recent visits. Apparently my astigmatism is exceptional…
Is it better when it’s a bunch of young doctors?
I’d say yes. If it’s regular rare it’s interesting for the younglings, if its extra rare it’s interesting even for the experienced.
A little better, at least then it’s something the doctor likely understands, but thinks it is at least a bit of a teachable situation.
If they call in a peer or superior, then it means something was over their depth and then you really worry.
The students just want to see freaky stuff. E. g. my appendix ruptured when I was 15 and it took my mother a few days to realize I’m not faking. So I have a bunch of scars, some parts are missing and other’s just look a bit off. Nothing I don’t know or can’t live with.
But when they call their fully grown colleagues to look at THAT. That’s creepy. That’s not good.
“Good news, you’re about to have a disease named after you!”
I have the same nail in my tibia. I Also fractured my fibula and they said that they don’t normally do much for a fibula break.
Can’t have shit in Detroit
As a person who has successfully stolen shit from Detroit? I dont think youre correct.
PS : Detroitians. Please lay off the deep dish pizza. AND eat more fibre please!
And even weirder, someone put all these titanium pins in my tibia!
Learning the hard way that the titanium nail gun is not a toy
Titanium? In this economy?
They didn‘t put everything back after the operation. That’s how I end up with random screws after any repair I do.
[doctor sweeping piece of bone under carpet after surgery]
Doctors would do no such thing!
…they’d actually just waltz around the hospital with whatever fell onto the OR floor still stuck to their shoe, tracking chunks of it all over the fucking place until some some crusty 70 y/o nurse chews him out while swatting him with today’s word search from the news paper.
Pretty routine stuff, really.
They try to use it in the next operation. Somebody out there with mismatched bones. One leg longer than the other.
And a paternity test that doesn’t match the mother
Best comment I’ve read on Lemmy today. :D
😷🧹🦴📜🤫
And most of the time those screws aren’t necessary anyway
This is just long enough to make a literal skeleton key
To someone who is knowledgeable about this: how important is a fibula to the actual strucural integrity of the body?
As I understand it, it is primarily used to point the foot.
Well it’s the attachment point for the muscles that do that and other balance related movements.
Thats ridiculous, i do that easily with my finger!
You must be a legend among The Ministry of Silly Walks ☝🏼
Relatively little for most people. It helps with ankle stabilization, but lots of people break their fibula and don’t even notice. If you’re an athlete who does a lot of lateral motion, it’s fairly important.
Tibia surgery affected chronic blood loss to areas of the fibula and thus osteonecrosis of the affected bone. This patient probably has some serious health issues outside their bone health for this to happen.
More than likely just an atrophic nonunion fracture of the fibula. The tibia and fibula were probably broken at the same time, if the fibular fracture looked like it didn’t need to be set they probably didn’t even bother putting hardware in.
You don’t really need to have any serious health issues for this. Sometimes with bones that aren’t weight bearing it’s just bad luck, sometimes it’s because you’re smoking a little too much.
Well, could be genetic. You figure out when the main bone cracks.
I was very confused the first time I saw this lol. I don’t remember the exact reasoning, but it’s very common for certain lower leg injuries
This made me chuckle
Scientifically speaking, it was probably the fae stealing your bones.
It probably was not recoverable when they repaired whatever made that Titanium splint and screws neccesary.
Oh so the caption is completely made up
Based on what I read after, given the injury to the Tibia, Mabe the Fibula’s middle was sacrificed for a bone graft, rather than cutting open his good leg as well.
Doesn’t really look like it’s been taken out for a graft, at least not anytime recently. My bet would be he acquired a atrophic nonunion fracture the same time he broke his tibia. The rounded edges of the bone look more like they’ve been subject to resorption instead of being excised.
Honestly not that rare for fibular fractures, though the segment missing is fairly large. So it’s probably a fairly old injury.
I suspect an older harvest. The callus combined with some perimeter resorption tends to lead to a conical profile. Sometimes the callus will even hypertrophy and make a couple of little drumsticks.
It’s a possibility, but I doubt it considering the profile pic seems to be of a relatively young patient. Plus, I’m not seeing anywhere on the tibia where a graft would be necessary, of course it could have been utilized elsewhere.
It would also be an odd place to harvest from, usually you would shoot for an area a little more distal to the attachment point of the extensor hallucis longus.
If it makes you feel better, the picture is also old as fuck.
Not necessarily, it could be a group of people who weren’t aware of removing the bone being a thing, but it’s probably a lie for internet points.
Ah, I guess I assumed “everyone” referred to medical professionals involved in the treatment, and that if there was an explanation OOP knew that it would have been included, but I can see how it’s possible
aliens took it in his sleep
Are you sure it was there before? I think you where born without it.
