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October 2006 Radiology Quiz

This patient is a 28 year old male who presents to the ED with the complaint wrist pain after a fall. The following ray is shown.

Questions:

           1.Describe what you see?

• AP of the wrist which shows a dorsally displaced fracture of the radius.

   2. Name and define the above fracture.

• Barton’s Fracture: distal radius fracture with dislocation of radiocarpal joint.

   3. How does this fracture typically occur?

• Barton’s fractures are usually do to falling on an outstretched hand.

   4.What complications can this patient expect?

• Complications are similar to that of a Colles fracture which include compressive neuropathy, posttraumatic arthrosis, Volkmann ischemic contracture, acute carpal tunnel syndrome, shoulder hand syndrome

       Trivia: Since this is the month of Halloween. Name the first movie Meatloaf starred in?

• Answer: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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