Not actually that rare to see. Reabsorption of bone is fairly common place in non unionized fractures that don't end up getting good blood flow. Osteoclasts will breakdown the bone fragments that don't unionize, especially if the bone isn't really responsible for weight bearing.
The only thing thats fake about this is a group of doctors being mystified by any of it.
My only regret
Is that I have
Boneitis
God dang aliens takin our bones I tell you what
Looks like the person must have lost it in accident that required installing the rod.
Moopsy!
Did they take it out when they put the pins in or maybe accidentally? I guess it could be infection. Crazy.
Btw, couldn't doctors just use git for your medicinal record? Every change is logged and attributed and all.
Organ harvesters? .... Does your hospital engage in organ harvesting schemes of any kind?
Orthopods stuck the tibial nail in and probably decided that the fibula didn’t need to be fixed because it doesn’t do much so they didn’t bother. The bone then healed as a malunion.
Weirdest instance I can think of where somebody lost something important was a young woman doing a bouncy Irish stepdance on a sidewalk above a very steep embankment. Suddenly her phone flew out of her sweater pocket and she back-kicked it over the precipice.
Screws are not supposed to stick out of the bone either right?
AI probably stole your fibula to make crappy imitation fibulas!
They don't need that part of the bone anyway.
/S
Oh, I know what this is. OP, you just need to select a different floor.
see this is why you should always keep track of your bones
Looks like someone had some extra parts left laying around when they put everything back together.
Well it's always in the last place you look
The forbidden car crash souvenir
Classic fibula or, as we call it, the liar's bone. Can't trust it to be there when you need it.
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