Abstract
Instructor in Surgery, Albany Medical College; Attending Dispensary Surgeon, Albany Hospital; Assistant Attending Surgeon, South End Dispensary Few examples of longitudinal, or fissured, fracture of the lower end of the radius are on record. Cotton<sup>1</sup>speaks of only three specimens as constituting the entire evidence. Stimson,<sup>2</sup>who refers to the lesion as an incomplete Colles' fracture, has seen only one skiagram of the condition. The condition was first described by Bigelow,<sup>3</sup>and although there are sundry references in the literature, published radiographic findings seem to be limited to Parrish's recent article.<sup>4</sup> The latter, so far as I know, is the only published report (except this one) with roentgenographic illustration of the lesion. <h3>REPORT OF CASE</h3> W. R., aged 31, truck-driver, Sept. 19, 1912, fell from the seat of his truck, striking his right wrist against the pavement. At the time of the accident he paid but
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