Exterior Wall Fracture

B. Comminuted - refers to a fracture in which the broken bone has shattered into several smaller pieces:

An elderly female patient presented to the emergency department with obvious deformity in the distal aspect of her forearm following a fall onto her left arm. The patient had fallen backwards onto her left side and landed on her wrist which was in a flexed position. Due to the way the patient had fallen, as well as her age, the primary pathology the doctor had suspected was a Smith’s fracture (also known as a reverse Colles fracture). “Smith fractures are fractures of the distal radius with associated palmar angulation of the distal fracture fragment” (Goel & Gaillard, 2015, para. 1). An x-ray was required to determine if it was a Smith’s fracture or another type of fracture. If the fracture turned out to be

Closer to the origin of the body. In this case the fracture at the proximal diaphysis means the part of the shaft closer to the origin of the humerus (the shoulder)

An intermetacarpal sprain happens when connective tissues (intermetacarpal ligaments) between bones in the hand (metacarpals) become torn (ruptured) or overstretched. This usually happens because of an injury to the hand.

Fractures to the ribs or the leg bones in babies. Multiple fractures or breaks at different stages of healing.

In addition Allen could not raise his arms against gravity, had flaccid lower extremities, and was without triceps or wrist extensor reflexes, and other muscle stretch reflexes were absent. If the fracture was at C4-5 Allen would not be able to shrug his shoulders and if the fracture was at C7 he could extend his flexed arms.

The symptoms are described as dull and sharp. Weight bearing and putting pressure aggravate the pain. Current pain level is 6/10. The exam of the left lower extremity showed that the pin sites were completely healed. Skin was intact. Pulses were palpable. He was able to range his ankle comfortably. He virtually had no motion of the subtalar joint. His pain was over the lateral part if the subtalar joint. The foot was warm. Pulses were palpable. He was intact neurovasculay. There was no calf pain. Reported CT scan demonstrated that the calcaceus fracture was healed. The patient has post-traumatic subtalar joint arthritis and calcaneal cubital joint arthritis. Plan: steroid injection, shoe wear and activity modification. If conservative treatment fails, he will benefit from a subtalar joint

This is where the skin does not break at the site of the fracture, and is the most common type of fracture

In a pre-coordinated terminology if you want to represent fractures you need to associate the notion “fracture” with any bone that can be fractured. If you want to further donote the type of fracture you take those notions and associate them with each fracture type. If you want to say the patient has a “history of” fracture hyou do it again. Anyone that has taken a close llk at ICD10-CM knows what happens form there. On top of all this, it doesn’t take much for you to realize that the concept you want to express has not been pre-coordinated. So you pick the closest thing you can..and information is

The Lisfranc fracture-dislocation is characterised as an injury of the tarsometatarsal joints of the foot. This region of the foot is prone to injury due to the lack of ligaments separating the bases of the first and second metatarsals (Bontrager & Lampignano, 2010). The Lisfranc joint articulates between the cuneiforms and cuboid of the foot, along with the distal end of metatarsals, and separates the forefoot from the midfoot. The joint can be seen from three different views in Figure 1 of the appendix (Kalia, Fishman, Carrino, & Fayad, 2011). The clinical indications of a Lisfranc fracture-dislocation include oedema and tenderness in the area of the midfoot. The injury is usually caused by the foot being overly plantar flexed, and is often associated with vehicular accidents and sporting injuries (Scolaro, Ahn & Mehta, 2011).

In order to confirm that a fracture has occurred, physicians use various types of imaging devices. These range from MRIs, CT scans, and X-rays. Karsteter and Yunker (2016) argued that because radiographs often come up negative for a blowout fracture, CT scans and MRI’s are more commonly used. Boyette, Pemberton, & Bonilla-Velez (2015), explained that an eye exam may also be completed, as it is imperative to identify any vision loss that has

One device used in treating a complex acetabular defect, fracture, or THA revision is an acetabular cage, shown in Figure 1. This type of device is necessary for fractures or defects in which acetabular bone loss is severe, and typical fixation methods will not be effective. The cage is made of a replacement acetabular cup with flanges for attachment and fixation to pelvic bone in order to keep the cup in place. Important factors included in the placement of these devices are the anatomic position and alignment, which is necessary to equalize leg length and allow for joint functionality, as well as the fixation to the bone. While a cage is often what is used, a commercially-available cage is often not the best fit for a patient with a severe

A compound fracture (also known as an open fracture) is a bone fracture that pierces the skin or comes in contact with an open wound. It is able to communicate with the external environment through those wounds. They are much more dangerous than regular fractures because they are prone to bone infection, which can be life threatening. There are three different types of compound fractures. In type 1, a bone fragment is briefly forced through the skin and leaves a communicating wound. In type 2, the fractures are caused by impact, resulting in damage to overlying tissues and exposure to bone. In type 3, there is extreme damage and overlying tissues are lost. Shearing and degloving wounds can form and there can be a lack of vascular supply.

*Inter-clavicle T shaped. *Inter-clavicle absent. *Inter-clavicle absent. *Epi-pubic bone present.

Oblique Fracture is slanted fractures that occur when a force is applied at any angle other than a right angle to the