Pediatric Trauma
An 8-year-old boy falls off playground equipment onto his outstretched hand. He has pain and swelling in the right forearm. Radiographs show angulated fractures of both the radius and ulna in the midshaft with intact periosteum on one side (greenstick pattern). The angulation measures 20 degrees in the coronal plane. Regarding pediatric forearm fractures:
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Pediatric forearm fractures include plastic deformation (bowing without fracture line), buckle/torus...
Acceptable angulation depends on age and location: children under 8-10 years can remodel more than o...
All pediatric forearm fractures require surgical fixation; rotational deformity remodels completely;...
Reduction technique for greenstick fractures involves completing the fracture by reversing the defor...
Surgical indications include open fractures, unstable fractures that cannot maintain reduction, asso...
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