Traumatic subcutaneous rupture of the shoulder muscles

Abstract

Here is our observation. M., 23 years old, was admitted on 13/I 1959 with complaints of sharp pains in the lower third of the right shoulder when trying to bend the elbow. In the morning of that day, he was hit by a steel cable across his right shoulder when he was lifting a load. On the antero-outer surface of the lower third of the right shoulder, there is a deep transverse groove of the skin and soft tissues, in the middle section of which there is a bleeding bruised wound 1.5x0.5 cm with crushed edges. Passive movements in the elbow joint in full, active ones are impossible due to sharp pain at the site of injury. Skin sensitivity of the right forearm was preserved, there was no paresis of the hand.

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