The elbow fat pads

Some of the coronoid fat pad lies anterior to the shallow coronoid fossa. The olecranon fat pad lies totally within the deeper olecranon fossa.

Reproduced with permission from: Beaty JH, Kasser JR. Evaluation of Pediatric Distal Humeral Fractures. In: Rockwood and Wilkins' Fractures in Children, 8th ed, Flynn JM, Skaggs DL, Waters PM (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2014. Copyright © 2014 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. www.lww.com.

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