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Bono fractured eye socket, shoulder blade and arm in cycling accident

Bono's injuries include a fractured eye socket, shoulder blade and arm.

By Karen Butler
Bono and the members of U2 arrive on the red carpet at the 86th Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on March 2, 2014. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
Bono and the members of U2 arrive on the red carpet at the 86th Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on March 2, 2014. UPI/Kevin Dietsch | License Photo

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Bono's cycling-related injuries this month were worse than originally reported but he is expected to make a full recovery.

The U2 musician's bandmates last week canceled a five-night residency on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, explaining their lead singer broke his arm during a Nov. 16 bicycle mishap in New York's Central Park. The precise circumstances of the accident have not been reported.

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However, Bono's orthopedic trauma surgeon has since released a statement to Rolling Stone magazine, detailing the Irish rocker's more serious injuries.

U2 posted a link to the story on its website.

Among the singer's wounds were a facial fracture involving the orbit of his eye, three separate fractures of his left shoulder blade and a fracture of his left humerus bone in his upper arm.

"The bone of his humerus was driven though his skin and the bone was in six different pieces," said a statement from Dean Lorich, an orthopedic trauma surgeon at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and Hospital For Special Surgery.

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"He was taken emergently to the operating room for a five-hour surgery Sunday evening [Nov. 16] where the elbow was washed out and debrided, a nerve trapped in the break was moved and the bone was repaired with three metal plates and 18 screws. One day later, he had surgery to his left hand to repair a fracture of his 5th metacarpal," the statement continued. "He will require intensive and progressive therapy, however, a full recovery is expected."

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