Q. What is below injury of radius also referred to as?
a. Puckering
b. Dimpling
c. Buckling
d. Step
e. Depression fracture
Answer -
c
The periosteal 'buckling' seen commonly in pediatric metaphyseal injury is also called Torus fracture or buckle fracture.
Step is also discontinuity in cortex suggesting fracture but better answer is buckling.
Puckering results from displaced fracture end piercing muscle or subcutaneous tissue following which the overlying skin appears to be puckered eg. in supracondylar humerus fracture.
a. Puckering
b. Dimpling
c. Buckling
d. Step
e. Depression fracture
Answer -
c
The periosteal 'buckling' seen commonly in pediatric metaphyseal injury is also called Torus fracture or buckle fracture.
Step is also discontinuity in cortex suggesting fracture but better answer is buckling.
Puckering results from displaced fracture end piercing muscle or subcutaneous tissue following which the overlying skin appears to be puckered eg. in supracondylar humerus fracture.
No comments:
Post a Comment