So Swole
Author: Jeremy Swisher, MD
Peer-Reviewer: Katie Dolbec, MD, CAQ-SM
Final Editor: Alex Tomesch, MD, CAQ-SM
A 26-year-old male hockey player presents to the emergency department with complaints of swelling and pain in his left elbow. The patient reports that he fell on his outstretched hand during a game two days ago and has been experiencing increasing elbow pain and swelling since that time.
Image 1. Plain radiograph of the left elbow. Case courtesy of Ian Bickle, Radiopaedia.org, rID: 86031
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