A broken wrist is what we often call a Colles fracture. Despite this, it is the radius bone in the forearm that breaks and not the carpal bones of the wrist. The radius is the larger of the two bones ...
Closed reduction with external fixation (CREF) and percutaneous pinning (CRPP) are commonly used surgical interventions to treat distal radius fractures. However, there is no consensus regarding the ...
Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 5, 1941. † Assistant professor of orthopedic surgery, Harvard Medical School; associate surgeon, ...