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Not actually that rare to see. Reabsorption of bone is fairly common place in non unionized fractures that don't end up getting good blood flow. Osteoclasts will breakdown the bone fragments that don't unionize, especially if the bone isn't really responsible for weight bearing.
The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.
The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.
Sounds more like a teaching opportunity, which was interpreted as an 'ah, they have no idea what is going on' moment.
Maybe? But again, reabsorption is so commonplace that it's not particularly a significant teaching opportunity. I
f we're assuming that what this person claimed is true, the only real educational thing about this is how important it is to stick to the prescribed follow up care. This more than likely would have been caught during follow up imaging post reconstruction.
My granma had a spinal disc missing entirely. It was just gone. Must've broken it at some point and didn't realize. She was mostly bedridden and moved very slowly with a walker, needed a lot of support. May she rest in peace (death unrelated to missing disc)
Could also be bone eating bacteria.
Or bone eating surgeons
Clearly the most obvious answer is bone-eating bones. Dirty cannibals.
Or the moopsy.
Prob not, osteomyelitis is pretty nasty and would have been cause for revisional intervention. The limb would have been visibly swollen and the post op wounds prob would have been weeping a bunch of nasty pus.
Does this bone not assist with weight bearing?
Not really during normal ambulation, it mainly aids in stability and in certain range of motions in the ankle. Even less so in post traumatic reconstructions like in this particular image.
Wouldn't the patient miss the support that bone provided?!
Nah, the fibula doesn't really bear much weight, it mainly helps with ankle stability and helps with ankle rotation. Things that probably aren't really a factor after the reconstruction that this patient acquired after their accident.
Or, when his leg was being put back together they just straight up forgot to put it in during surgery.
I'm hearing that she should have joined a union?
Maybe it was a teaching hospital like on the tv show scrubs?
Nah, I practice at a teaching hospital. Knowing about reabsorption is stuff you learn when you learn about osteoclasts in med school. If you make it to a residency without knowing about osteoclasts, something horrible has happened.
Nah i mean the teaching doctor might take the opportunity to show the residents an example of it, and the patient perspective given here is totally off, but they're just guessing why a bunch of doctors are all gathered around to look at the xray.
My only regret
Is that I have
Boneitis
oof ouch owie
God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what
I tell you what is always read as hwat.
Unless it's Boomhauer saying it. Then it's "Itelyawat"
Looks like the person must have lost it in accident that required installing the rod.
Did they take it out when they put the pins in or maybe accidentally? I guess it could be infection. Crazy.
Orthopods stuck the tibial nail in and probably decided that the fibula didn’t need to be fixed because it doesn’t do much so they didn’t bother. The bone then healed as a malunion.
Weirdest instance I can think of where somebody lost something important was a young woman doing a bouncy Irish stepdance on a sidewalk above a very steep embankment. Suddenly her phone flew out of her sweater pocket and she back-kicked it over the precipice.
Organ harvesters? .... Does your hospital engage in organ harvesting schemes of any kind?
Screws are not supposed to stick out of the bone either right?
You would think, I have a similar intramedullary rod in my leg, and my screws also stick out. Since the screws are there to hold the rod down the inside of the bone in place, they care more about that stability than the screws being a bit long.
I've been told that now that I'm healed, if the hardware is giving me problems, I can have them go in and remove it. Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done (basically as much as I paid to have it put in when my leg was broken). So at least for now, even though I do have some hardware-related pain, it's not bad enough for me to justify the cost.
Unfortunately, being in the US, that would probably be another 15-20 grand to have done
Fucking hell. I told my doctors that the titanium in my arm was interfering with my rock climbing and weight lifting and they took it out. I think I paid some token fee.
In Europe, obviously
I had a similar thing done and just looked at my pics of my xrays (was too poor at the time to get copies). None of mine stick out except maybe the head of one of the screws a little.
AI probably stole your fibula to make crappy imitation fibulas!
Or God took it to create another gender. Check mate, evangelicals!
Man, Woman, Roman?🫨
Oh, I know what this is. OP, you just need to select a different floor.
Looks like someone had some extra parts left laying around when they put everything back together.
They don't need that part of the bone anyway.
/S
The forbidden car crash souvenir
Well it's always in the last place you look
Classic fibula or, as we call it, the liar's bone. Can't trust it to be there when you need it.
that was me, I took it. I needed it for a potion
