INTRODUCTION
Definition of fracture
is a break or disruption in the continuity of a bone or cartilage structure. Fracture of long bone diagnosis should
be able to describe closed or open, anatomy location (proximal, shaft, distal
and intraarticular, simple or comminuted, complete or based on fracture line
direction/extent to articular surface or not) or incomplete, the position of
fracture fragments (angulation, displacement), pathologic, avulsion, impaction
and stress.
1.
Complete
fracture is a fracture involving the entire cross-section of
the long bone or an interruption of both cortices of the bone (fig. 1).
Fig. 1 Closed complete
fracture of the right humerus
2.
Incomplete
fracture; if it involves only one cortex or only a portion of
cross section of the long bone.
