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Extraarticular Bending Fractures

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Fractures of the Distal Radius

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The rationale of developing an approach to understanding and treating fractures of the distal end of the radius based upon their mechanism of injury will become evident in the discussion of the “bending fracture.” Given the fact that the vast literature on the subject of distal radius fractures has more often than not combined numerous different fracture patterns under eponymic descriptions, (“Colles,” “Pouteau,” “Goyrand”), it is no wonder that there continues to exist so much disagreement regarding optimal treatment and expected outcome. By subdividing these fractures on the basis of specific anatomic patterns, it is the authors’ hope that the reader will appreciate the specific features inherent in each fracture type. This will facilitate the formulation of effective treatment plans based upon both the needs of the fracture and those of the patient.

No fractures perhaps require more careful examination than those of the carpal extremity of the radius, for neither is their precise nature clearly defined, nor yet are their unsatisfactory after consequences sufficiently, as a rule, impressed upon the patients.27 G.W. Cullender, 1865

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