Illustration of a broken wrist

Broken wrist

1. Pea bone -
   Os pisiform
2. Triangular leg -
   Os triquetrum
3. Moonbone -
   Lunate bone
4. Ellen fracture
   (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 - Setting 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 -
   Radiocarpal articulation
   II - Lower (distal) wrist -
   Articulatio mediocarpalis
   III - Carpal-metacarpal joints -
   Articulationes carpometacarpales

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