A 70-year-old, right-hand dominant woman with an active lifestyle was referred to our upper limb clinic with a distal radial shaft nonunion and implant failure, on a background of distal radius malunion of the left forearm. She had a fall one year ago where she fractured the distal third of her left radial shaft and was treated with a narrow limited contact dynamic compression plate (LCDCP) in her local hospital. Postoperatively, she continued with painful and restricted range of movements in her forearm and wrist. One year after surgery, while removing her jumper, she felt a sharp pain, snap, and deformity in her forearm due to implant failure and nonunion ( ). Few centimeters distal to the nonunion segment, she also has a decade-old distal radius malunion, following conservatively managed extra-articular distal radial fracture.
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