Forearm Trauma
A 35-year-old man falls onto an outstretched hand with the forearm pronated. He has pain and deformity of the forearm with prominence of the ulnar head at the wrist. Radiographs show a distal third radius shaft fracture with dorsal dislocation of the distal radioulnar joint. Regarding Galeazzi fracture:
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A Galeazzi fracture is a fracture of the distal third of the radius with associated disruption of th...
Key radiographic features indicating DRUJ disruption include: ulnar styloid fracture, widening of th...
Galeazzi fractures involve the proximal radius; the DRUJ is not involved; conservative treatment wit...
Treatment in adults requires open reduction and internal fixation of the radius fracture with a plat...
Complications include DRUJ instability, malunion, nonunion, and loss of forearm rotation; failure to...
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