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      <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Medical Case Reports</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 2; Issue 4</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
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      <Season>(Jul-Aug, 2021)</Season>
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        <Month>11</Month>
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      <ArticleTitle>Nonunion of Lesser Tuberosity Fracture in A 16 Years Old Teenager</ArticleTitle>
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          <FirstName>Marcelo</FirstName>
          <LastName>Bao</LastName>
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          <FirstName>Antonio</FirstName>
          <LastName>Barquet</LastName>
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      <Abstract>We report a case of a 16 years old adolescent who sustain a traffic accident with direct trauma in his left shoulder. He suffers an isolated avulsion of the lesser tuberosity of humerus. The lesion was missed and lead to a nonunion of the fragment. The interest of this report is to analyze this rare case his diagnosis, treatment and evolution.</Abstract>
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