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Transverse fracture (direction) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- At a right angle to the
axis of the bone
Spiral fracture (direction) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Also called torsion
- Bone has twisted appearance
Oblique fracture (direction) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Fracture line between
horizontal and vertical direction
Comminuted fracture (direction) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Crush or splintered
Segmental fracture (direction) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Double fracture, appears
as a segment
, Angulated fracture (alignment) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Deviated from straight
line
Displacement fracture (alignment) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Abnormal position of
fracture fragments
Open fracture (associated factors) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Disruption of the skin
Closed fracture (associated factors) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Skin is intact
Dislocation (associated factors) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔- Displacement of bone
from a joint
Scaphoid fracture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Pain in anatomic snuffbox from fall on
outstretched hands (FOOSH)
Colles fracture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Transverse fracture of distal radius,
causing *DORSAL* angulation
Smith fracture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Transverse fracture of distal radius,
causing *PALMER* angulation
Monteggia fracture - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Fracture in the proximal part of the
ulna with dislocation of the *head of the radius*