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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
X-ray of the day: Elbow trauma
Traumatic hemarthrosis of the elbow joint, the fat pad sign. A joint effusion displaces the ventral as well as the dorsal fat pad (white arrowhead). A fracture of the radial head, Salter Harris type II (white arrow), is seen.
A normal ossification centre of the olecranon is present.