Illustration of a wrist fracture: types of fracture, bones of the right hand viewed from the palm side (palmar).
Broken wrist
Pea bone - Os pisiform
Triangular leg - Os triquetrum
Moonbone - Lunate bone
Ellen fracture (Ulnar fracture)
Broken spoke (Radius fracture)
Scaphoid fracture of the hand A - Colles' fracture (Distal radius fracture kink to the stretching side) B - Smith fracture (Distal radius fracture kink to the flexor side) C - Closed reduction (inserting wires) D - Setting up (reduction) - Bones are in the correct Brought location E - implantation of a metal plate (Osteosynthesis plate made of titanium) Joints of the hand: I - Upper (proximal) wrist - Radiocarpal articulation II - Lower (distal) wrist - Articulatio mediocarpalis III - Carpal-metacarpal joints - Articulationes carpometacarpales
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