Simultaneous bilateral olecranon fracture: a case report and review of the literature.

BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE WORK: A bilateral fracture of the olecranon is a rare injury, with only few cases reported in the literature.

METHODS

A single case of bilateral Mayo type II A olecranon fracture in a 88 years old woman is described. A research of all articles regarding simultaneous bilateral olecranon fracture was performed in the PubMed database.

RESULT: The reported case demonstrated good clinical and radiographic results at 5 months follow-up with surgical treatment. The literature search produced other 6 cases in 5 case reports. Except for one case of fatigue fracture that had been treated conservatively, the others received surgical treatment with satisfactory results.

CONCLUSION

Simultaneous bilateral olecranon fracture is very uncommon. Bilateral internal fixation yields good clinical and radiographic results in most cases.