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
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no one was expected to see this. duke faced off in the regional final. with less than seven minutes to go, they went up and landed the wrong way, breaking his lower right leg in two place where is a shin bone broke through the skin in an injury too gruesome to show. his teammates watched from the bench several feet away. you can see them recoil in horror. he was rushed to the hospital where he had two hours of surgery where he reset his leg. he is said to be in good spirits, but has a long recovery ahead of him. our chief correspondent sanjay gupta is here to tell us more about this injury. we want to talk about startling new numbers on attention deficit hyper activity disorder. the injury first. what exactly happened? well, it s a pretty unusual
right leg in two place where is a shin bone broke through the skin in an injury too gruesome to show. his teammates watched from the bench several feet away. you can see them recoil in horror. he was rushed to the hospital where he had two hours of surgery where he reset his leg. he is said to be in good spirits, but has a long recovery ahead of him. our chief correspondent sanjay gupta is here to tell us more about this injury. we want to talk about startling new numbers on attention deficit hyper activity disorder. the injury first. what exactly happened? well, it s a pretty unusual type of injury. he is obviously a big guy. he jumped far horozontally and vertically and landed in an awkward position. when you think about the leg below the knee, you are talking about two bones. the tibia and a smaller bone