Illustration of a broken wrist

Illustration of a wrist fracture: types of fracture, bones of the right hand viewed from the palm side (palmar).

Broken wrist

  1. Pea bone -
    Os pisiform
  2. Triangular leg -
    Os triquetrum
  3. Moonbone -
    Lunate bone
  4. Ellenbruch
    (Ulnar fracture)
  5. Broken spoke
    (Radius fracture)
  6. 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 - Set 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 -
    Articulatio radiocarpalis
    II - Lower (distal) wrist -
    Articulatio mediocarpalis
    III - Carpal-metacarpal joints -
    Articulationes carpometacarpales

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