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16 Cards in this Set
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5 types of SALTER fractures |
S: Straight Across Growth Plate A: Above the growth plate L: Low or below the growth plate T: through the growth plate ER: erasure or crushing of the growth plate |
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Boxer’s fractures |
Fractures that occur at 4th and 5th metacarpal bones |
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Bennett’s fracture |
1st metacarpal fx |
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Colles’ fracture |
Distal radius fx with anterior displacement |
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Comminuted fracture |
Severe fx broken in many places |
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Compound fracture |
Fx that breaks the skin |
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Overriding fracture |
Fx where one bone overrides another |
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Epiphyseal fracture |
Fx through the epiphysis |
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Greenstick Fracture |
Fx is not complete, may be bent. Seen in Children |
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Compression fracture |
Bone pushed into bone causing a fx |
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Transverse fracture |
Fx across the bone (at a right angle to the longitudinal axis of the bone) |
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Impacted fracture |
Bone into bone adjacent fragmented ends of fx bones wedged together |
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Oblique fracture |
Fx cleanly separated at an oblique angle |
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Spiral fracture |
Fracture twisting around shaft of bone |
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Pathological fracture |
Fracture occurring in diseased bone with only slight or no trauma. |
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Pott’s fracture |
Fracture of lower part of fibula with injury to lower tibial articulation (ankle fx involving medial and lateral malleolus) |
