Book contents
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Chapter 17 Hand and upper limb
- Chapter 18 Children’s orthopaedics
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
- References
Chapter 17 - Hand and upper limb
from Section 4 - Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Chapter 17 Hand and upper limb
- Chapter 18 Children’s orthopaedics
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
- References
Summary
These are posteroanterior (PA) and lateral radiographs of the wrist that show an extra-articular distal radius fracture. On the PA view, the radial height and inclination are maintained. On the lateral view, there is dorsal comminution with dorsal angulation of the distal radius. The radiographs also showed thumb carpometacarpal arthritis.
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- Postgraduate OrthopaedicsViva Guide for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination, pp. 351 - 378Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019