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Severe and Rapid Post-Traumatic Osteolysis of the Distal Clavicle in a College Athlete
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Severe and Rapid Post-Traumatic Osteolysis of the Distal Clavicle in a College Athlete: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Severe and Rapid Post-Traumatic Osteolysis of the Distal Clavicle in a College Athlete: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Review Data

Purpose and Significance of Study: This is a report of an unusual case of a 21-year-old female athlete with post-traumatic distal clavicle osteolysis (DCO). The report also discusses the case taking the available literature into account.

 

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Surgical Case Reports.

 

In the Discussion, the authors have clearly laid out the uniqueness of this case and discussed similar cases in the literature. They concluded that horizontal instability in the acromioclavicular (AC) joint may contribute to the failure of conservative treatment in patients with DCO. If surgical management is considered, AC ligament reconstruction, in addition to the standard distal clavicle excision, may provide additional benefit in functional outcomes.

 

o   The manuscript is well-written. It contains just a few minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof), which are listed below –

 

·       Omission of articles or comma, e.g., omission of “the” before “failure” in the 1st sentence of Conclusion in the Abstract, after “modified” in the 3rd sentence of the 2nd paragraph of Case report, and so on.

·       “et al” must be followed by “.”.

·       Words like “high-grade”, “cross-body”, “blind-ended”, etc. may be hyphenated for easier reading.

Author Info

Brian M. Grawe Katharine Schuyler Nissen Yehia H. Bedeir

Corresponding Author
Katharine Schuyler Nissen
University of Pennsylvania, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Article Info

Article Type
Case Report and Review of the Literature
Publication history
Received: Mon 18, May 2020
Accepted: Wed 03, Jun 2020
Published: Fri 12, Jun 2020
Copyright
© 2023 Katharine Schuyler Nissen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.06.09

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