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CNN Sanjay Gupta MD April 7, 2013 11:51:00

his shinbone in fact actually broke through the skin. it was so gruesome, too gruesome to really show again on television, but you get the idea of what happened. you could see the looks on his teammates faces and really everyone else nearby. it was a pretty unusual injury. appears he jumped quite significantly horizontally and vertically and landed in an awkward position. look at the lower bones over here. this is the knee up here. obviously the ankle. this is the tibia bone and then the fibula. and both these bones were broken as a result of that jump. show you an x-ray now. this is sort of illustrated, this isn't his x-ray specifically, but keep in mind the picture you just saw and you see the fracture here, and then you see another fracture down here. this is the skin. and you can actually see the bone coming through the skin there. when that happens there's a big risk of infection as well. and one of the keys is you got to operate, but you've got to do it even more quickly because of that risk of infection. show you something here, to reset a break like the one you

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