Four weeks before the current presentation, the patient had sustained a fracture of the right distal radius after a fall that had occurred while she was cleaning, and the arm was immobilized in a ...

Treatment for forearm fractures is almost always operative, but nonoperative management can be used in specific cases — usually for an isolated ulna fracture. What is a forearm fracture? The forearm ...

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RESULTS RESULTS There is evidence for recommending percutaneous pinning of unstable, dorsally displaced distal radius fractures rather than conservative treatment, but which pinning method is best ...

Scudder, 3 Brittain, 4 Key, 5 Cleveland 6 and other authors have stated that fractures of the distal end of the radius and of the carpal scaphoid can occur simultaneously . . .

Conclusions: For high-energy distal radius fractures, volar locking plate fixation and dual-plate fixation achieved similarly positive functional and radiological outcomes. The dual-plate fixation ...

Background Colles’ type fractures of the distal radius are one of the most commonly manipulated fractures in the ED. Local audit data suggest that a high proportion of these injuries undergo ...