. Modern surgery, general and operative. ?lt Impacted Colless fracture. Fig. 382.—Bartons fracture. Symptoms.—In Colless fracture there are pain, swelling, tenderness of theregion and very acute tenderness along the line of fracture. This line of tender-ness can be tracked by the pressure of a lead-pencil all the way around theradius (Dwight, in Surg. Report of Roosevelt Hosp. of N. Y., 1915). 66o Diseases and Injuries of the Bones and Joints The hand is abducted (drawn to the radial side of the forearm) and pronated,the head of the ulna is prominent, the styloid process of the radius is raise
. Modern surgery, general and operative. ?lt Impacted Colless fracture. Fig. 382.—Bartons fracture. Symptoms.—In Colless fracture there are pain, swelling, tenderness of theregion and very acute tenderness along the line of fracture. This line of tender-ness can be tracked by the pressure of a lead-pencil all the way around theradius (Dwight, in Surg. Report of Roosevelt Hosp. of N. Y., 1915). 66o Diseases and Injuries of the Bones and Joints The hand is abducted (drawn to the radial side of the forearm) and pronated,the head of the ulna is prominent, the styloid process of the radius is raised,and the lower fragment may mount on the back of the lower end of the upperfragment, causing a dorsal projection, termed by Liston the silver-forkdeformity (Figs. 384, 385). Silver-fork deformity is present in from 60 to 70per cent, of cases. The lower end of the upper fragment can be felt beneaththe flexor tendons above the wrist. The position in deformity is produced bythe force. Some consider it is maintained by the action of th
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