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Figure 2: Excised clavicle with 3.5 mm plate and screws and associated pseudoaneurysm around the tip of the prominent screw. A dilator has been placed through the true lumen of the excised segment of the subclavian artery. This image depicts several identifi ed risk factors. The offending screw is markedly longer than the adjacent screws and protrudes from the posteroinferior surface of the middle clavicle third. The screw passage is eccentric, such that the surgeon may only have encountered one cortex when drilling the hole. (Shackford SR, Connolly JF. Taming of the screw: a case report and literature review of limb-threatening complications after plate osteosynthesis of a clavicular nonunion. J Trauma 2003;55:840-3. Reproduced with permission)

Figure 2: Excised clavicle with 3.5 mm plate and screws and associated pseudoaneurysm around the tip of the prominent screw. A dilator has been placed through the true lumen of the excised segment of the subclavian artery. This image depicts several identifi ed risk factors. The offending screw is markedly longer than the adjacent screws and protrudes from the posteroinferior surface of the middle clavicle third. The screw passage is eccentric, such that the surgeon may only have encountered one cortex when drilling the hole. (Shackford SR, Connolly JF. Taming of the screw: a case report and literature review of limb-threatening complications after plate osteosynthesis of a clavicular nonunion. J Trauma 2003;55:840-3. Reproduced with permission)