Department of Emergency Medicine

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Category: Visual Diagnosis

Title: What's the Diagnosis? Case submitted by Dr. Michael Bond

Posted: 11/12/2012 by Haney Mallemat, MD
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Question

33 year-old male found unconscious by EMS and complains of right shoulder pain upon waking up in the ED. Diagnosis? 

Answer

Answer: Posterior shoulder dislocation

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