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classificaion of bond fractues
Question | Answer |
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closed | a bone is broken but the skin is not borken |
open | a fragment of the fractured bone breaks the skin. or a wound extends to the site of fracture |
displaced | fractured bone parts or out of alignment |
complete | a bone is broken into at least 2 fragements |
incomplete | the fractue does not extend completly accross the bone |
comminuted | the bone break into several pieces |
transverse | the fracture is at a right angle to the long access of the bone |
impacted | one bond fragement is driven into the other, rsulting in shortening of the limb. |
spiral | fracture spiral around the long axis of the bone |
oblique | diagnal fracture rins accross the the long axis of the bone. |