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Abstract
Colles' fracture of the wrist is among the most common bony injuries encountered in
emergency practice, and accounts for 10% to 20% of all fractures. Described in an
excellent clinical treatise some 8 decades before the advent of radiographs, this
fracture of the distal radius continues to pose a source of some disability to large
numbers of patients. Complications include residual deformity, loss of mobility, median
and ulnar nerve injury, shoulder-hand syndrome, and rupture of the extensor pollicis
longus tendon. Although encountered in patients of either sex and in all age groups,
this injury classically affects postmenopausal women, who are predisposed to it as
a consequence of osteoporosis. The technique of immobilization appears not to be as
important in influencing final outcome as does the precision of reduction.
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Publication history
Accepted:
October 29,
1984
Received:
April 21,
1984
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© 1985 Published by Elsevier Inc.
