While commonly referred to as a “broken wrist,” most wrist fractures are actually fractures of one or both of the two bones of the forearm, the radius and the ulna. A fracture of ... (open reduction ...

Radial head fractures are frequently caused by trauma to the elbow. While the average length of time of disability following these injuries is 8.5 weeks, significant permanent disability may persist.

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, 807-8555, Japan Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kagawa Rosai Hospital, ...

A distal radius fracture can be isolated, which means no other fractures are involved. It can also occur along with a fracture of the distal ulna (the forearm bone on ... If there are multiple bone ...

The end of the radius is displaced or angled in the direction of the palm of the hand. It accounts for about 5% of all radial and ulnar fractures ... with internal fixation tools like metal ...

1 Department of Surgery, Ghana Police Hospital, Accra, Ghana. 2 Department of Surgery, St. Dominic Hospital, Akwatia, Ghana. The forearm comprises the radius and ulna; two parallel bones that connect ...

This suggests that in children with displaced fractures of the distal radius and ulna, the treatment with closed revision manipulation combined with splint external fixation is comparable to the ...

Distal radial fractures (DRFs) are one of the most common fractures and are associated with concomitant ulnar styloid fractures (USFs) in up to 65% of cases. Although surgical fixation of DRFs has ...

A fracture of the ulnar styloid is a common type of wrist injury. This is a break at the end of the ulna, or the bony part of your wrist next to your pinky finger. This part of your wrist is also ...

Distal ulna head or neck fracture is commonly associated with distal radius fracture. Treatment of these fractures ... The authors concluded that: " In the present study, ulna hook plate fixation ...

A male in his 70s presented with a chronic malunited comminuted Galeazzi fracture dislocation, including angular malunion, radial shortening (1.3 cm ulnar-plus variance ... of the radius with ...