Illustration of a broken wrist
Broken wrist
- Pea bone -
Os pisiform - Triangular leg -
Os triquetrum - Moonbone -
Lunate bone - Ellenbruch
(Ulnar fracture) - Broken spoke
(Radius fracture) - 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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