Baseball Fracture
Type of fracture with more than 2 pieces.
Comminuted Fracture.
Also called a March Fracture.
Stress Fracture
Which type of procedure would be performed in surgery to realign a fracture?
Open Reduction.
Joint is no longer in contact with normal articulation.
Dislocation.
A part of bone is pulled away by the attached tendon or ligament is termed...
Avulsion Fracture
Fracture does not traverse through the entire bone.
Incomplete Fracture
Describe a Barton Fracture
Fracture through articular surface of distal radius. May be associated with subluxation or dislocation of the radiocarpal joint.
Describe Varus Alignment
Distal fragment is aligned medially.
A bruise time injury without a break in the skin.
Contusion.
Fracture type where the fracture line does not traverse through entire bone.
Incomplete Fracture
Type of apposition when the sides of fragment shafts are touching.
Bayonet Apposition
Transverse Fracture on Epiphyseal Plate.
May involve slipping.
Salter-Harris Fracture Type 1
What is another term for Dislocation?
Expansion of outer cortex caused by force on ends of bones.
Torus/Buckle Fracture
Which type of orthopedic fixator is commonly used to reduce midhumeral fractures?
Intramedullary Rod
Which routine would best demonstrate a Hutchinson Fracture?
Wrist Routine
Compression Fracture of Epiphyseal Plate
Classic Metaphyseal Lesion
Articulations are intact but misaligned.
Subluxation
Wire used to reduce wrist and hand fractures.
Kirshner Wire
Type of orthopedic fixation/stabilization wire placed to approximate fractured bone fragments.
Cerclage Wire
Distal 1/3 radial shaft fracture with an associated distal radioulnar joint injury.
Galeazzi Fracture
Fracture through Epiphyseal Plate and Epiphysis
Salter-Harris Fracture Type 3
What does CML stand for?
Classic Metaphyseal Lesion