Abstract

Treatment of Open Distal Radius Fracture through External Fixation: A Case Report

Highlights

  • Open fractures are high-energy injuries that present with a spectrum of soft tissue and bony injury [1]

  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of a 52 year old woman with open fractures of the right distal radius treated with early debridement and external fixation

  • A 52-year-old woman presents to the emergency room 3 hours after a car accident, with an isolated grade 1 open fracture of the right distal radius associated with a volar-ulnar wound draining serosanguinous fluid (Figure 1)

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Case Report

Treatment of Open Distal Radius Fracture through External Fixation: A Case Report. Ricardo Monreal1*, Fernando Lopez Guevara, Maria C Lopez Gil and Eilen Monreal. The purpose of this article is to report radiographic, clinical, and functional outcome of a 52 year old woman who sustained an open comminuted and unstable fracture of the distal part of the right radius treated with early debridement and external fixation.

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