Bone fracture

1- Simple fracture. clean break overlying skin. 1- Simple transverse fractures at right-angles broken stick of chalk. 2- Simple oblique fractures at an angle of 30 degrees 3- Simple spiral fractures the line of the fracture spirals around the bone 1 23

2- Greenstick fracture. incomplete break most occur in children

3-Compound (open ) fracture 1-Fracture open from within out the broken bone and skin from the inside of the body 2-Fracture open from without in the skin was first broken by trauma more severe damage and risk of infection

4- Comminuted (multifragmentary) fracture broken into more than two pieces

5- Impacted fracture. which at least one bone (or fragment of bone) has been driven into another.

6-Complicated fracture. broken bone that has also damaged surrounding structures or organs e.g. a broken rib that has punctured a lung. 7- compression fracture (also crush) e.g. due to a heavy fall / fall from height

8-Pathological fracture break in a bone when the bone itself is either abnormal or diseased.

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