dr in trouble
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Can anyone define the diff between colles and smith fracture ????
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| DrVirgo
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Colles fracture occurs when a person falls on the outstretched hand. It's a distal radial fracture. YOu will see it is deformed adn painful. The main lesion is a dorsally displaced, dorsally angulated fracture of the distal radius.
Smith fracture is also called a "reverse colles fracture". Its a fracture of the distal radial metaphysis. But in this case there will be palmar displacement of the distal fracture fragment.
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| paasu
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ya drvirgo is right.
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