Fractures of the distal radius are among the most common of musculoskeletal injuries; they occur at a rate of approximately 2 such injuries per 1000 individuals per year. As with most fractures ...

An x-ray is very useful in diagnosing a DRUJ injury and causes over 2 mm widening of the radial ulnar joint (the joint between the radius and the ulna). On the lateral x-ray displaced more ...

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — A Study of the X-Ray Plates of One Hundred and Forty Cases of Fracture of the Lower End of the Radius ...

What is a Colles’ Fracture? A Colles' fracture -- or distal radius fracture -- is often called a ''broken wrist.'' In France it’s sometimes called a “Pouteau-Colles” fracture. Technically ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — In a cohort of postmenopausal women, vitamin D deficiency was not associated with and did not improve the risk assessment of distal radius fracture, according to a presenter here ...

OsteoDetect is a computer-aided detection and diagnostic software that uses an algorithm to analyze 2-D wrist radiographs for signs of distal radius fracture. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

A common fracture in children comes from a fall onto an outstretched arm, which breaks the radius bone. Parents instinctively want to get an X-ray at the hospital, but, according to a randomised ...

Older men who have a rapid decline in cortical bone over 4 years have a higher risk for sustaining a future fracture, according to findings published in The Journal of Bone and Mineral Research ...