Transverse & Oblique fractures
-:- Transverse: right angle (simple fx) direct blow
Oblique: angled, likely to displace, twisting force
Stress/Butterfly/Avulsion fractures
-:- Stress: crack in bone (March fx)
Butterfly: comminuted fx- 2 fragments on each side of central fragment
Avulsion:...
✓ -:- Oblique fx of distal radius involving the radiocarpal joint. Unstable -
readily displaces. FOOSH.
Reverse Barton's: volar rim instead of dorsal
Rolando's Fracture
✓ -:- Fracture/dislocation of base of thumb. Same as Bennett's, but
comminuted. 3 fragments in T or Y pattern.
Buckle Fracture
✓ -:- (Torus). Incomplete fx. FOOSH. Bone bends outward but does not
fully break- one side of bone undamaged.
Chauffer's fracture
✓ -:- (Hutchinson's). Radial styloid process pulled away from radius by
ligaments
Colles Fracture
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