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Fig. 5

From: What's in a name? Upper extremity fracture eponyms (Part 1)

Fig. 5

Colles fracture. Lateral (a) and AP (b) wrist radiographs. Transverse distal radial metaphyseal fracture (arrows) with no intra-articular extension. Mild dorsal angulation of the distal with respect to proximal fracture fragment; it is this angulation that differentiates the Colles fracture from the Smith fracture, which has volar angulation or displacement

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