Notes on the modern treatment of fractures . he fracture was oblique, the line running from the ulnarside of the radius upward and outward toward the radial sideof the bone. When the palm of the hand is laid flat on atable, the front of the forearm lies closer to the table than inthe normal arm. This is due, I think, to the fact that at thetime of fracture the carpal fragment was rotated, so as to makethe hand abnormally pronated. There is no special increaseor diminution in either flexion or extension of the boy tells us that this deformity has existed without incon-venience s
Notes on the modern treatment of fractures . he fracture was oblique, the line running from the ulnarside of the radius upward and outward toward the radial sideof the bone. When the palm of the hand is laid flat on atable, the front of the forearm lies closer to the table than inthe normal arm. This is due, I think, to the fact that at thetime of fracture the carpal fragment was rotated, so as to makethe hand abnormally pronated. There is no special increaseor diminution in either flexion or extension of the boy tells us that this deformity has existed without incon-venience since the time of the accident. I find, however, thathe has a little pain in the wrist after using the hand for hardwork, and it was this which brought him to the hospital for 144 THE MODERN TREATMENT OF FRACTURES. treatment. Here is a photograph jf a similar fracture in anadult. This injury is an unusual one and very apt to be overlooked,because the attention of surgeons has not been called to thecondition as particularly as it ought to Fig. 32. Fracture of lower end of radius with moderate forward displacement(radial side). I showed here a couple of years ago a woman who hadsustained this same fracture. It had evidently not been recog-nized, for the fragments, as in the case of this boy. had notbeen perfectly reduced. Here is a plaster cast (Figs. 32 and33) of her hand and forearm, which shows a similar deform-ity to that exhibited by the boy. except that the hand is not
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