Fractures Flashcards
Portion of bone torn away by muscle or ligament, tractional force
Avulsion fracture
A fracture with more than two fragments
Comminuted fracture
Displacement or separation of a slightly movable joint
Diastasis
Skin ruptured and bone exposed
Compound/ open fracture
Incomplete fracture in children
Greenstick/ hictory stick
Bone fragments driven into one another
Impaction fracture
Incomplete fracture, one side of cortex is affected
Torus/ Buckling fracture
Clinically evident but not seen on xray. May become evident a week to 10 days later
Occult fracture
Insufficiency or repetitive stress causing fracture
Stress/ fatigue fracture
Fracture of 1st metacarpal
Bennet’s
Fracture of 2nd or 3rd metacarpal
Boxers
Fracture of 4th and 5th metacarpal
Bar room
MC fractured carpal bone
Scaphoid
Fracture of proximal ulna
Nightstick
Fractured ulna with radial head displacement
Monteggia
Fracture of distal 1/3 of radius with dislocation of the distal radio-ulnar joint
Galeazzi
Fracture of distal radius with posterior displacement of the distal fragment
Colles
Fracture of distal radius with anterior displacement of distal fragment
Smith’s
Stress fracture of the 2nd,3rd,4th metatarsals
March
Transverse fracture at the proximal 5th metatarsals
Jones
Avulsion fracture of the spinous process MC C6-T1. HYPERFLEXION INJURY
Clay Shovelers
Bilateral pedicle fracture of C2 due to HYPER-EXTENSION INJURY
Hangman’s