All are common with elbow dislocation, except -
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- Myositis ossificans progressiva
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- Median Nerve Palsy
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- Brachial artery injury
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- Volkmann’s contracture
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- Complications are common and may be divided into early and late :-
- Early complications
- Vascular injury :- Brachial artery(DPG09) may injured. It may result in compartment syndrome and Vollanann’s ischemic contracture(DPG09)
- Nerve injury :- Median((DPG09) and ulnar nerve injury
- Late complications
- Stiffness
- Myositis ossificans
- Unreduced dislocation
- Recurrent dislocation