Fractures Flashcards
(26 cards)
What is the tissue called during the healing process of a fracture?
A callus
After a bone is broken the area swells with _______.
Blood. This blood brings about an inflammatory response, fibrous tissue to accumulate and initiates healing
______ will deposit calcium and completes the healing process after a bone break.
Osteoblasts
What is a break at right angles to the long plane of the bone?
Transverse Fracture
What is a type of complete fracture which occurs due to a rotational or twisting force? Can be known as a torsion fracture.
Spiral Fracture
What kind of fracture is it when one thin line with no additional lines splintering from it?
Linear Fracture
What kind of fracture is it when the bone snaps into two or more parts?
Oblique Fracture
What kind of fracture is it when the bone cracks either part or all of the way but maintained alignment?
Oblique Non-Displaced
What kind of fracture is it when it is an incomplete fracture, usually in children because their bones are soft?
Greenstick
What kind of fracture is it when it is a break or splinter of the bone into two or more fragments?
Comminuted
What kind of fracture is it when a small chunk of bone attached to a tendon or ligament gets pulled away from the main part of the bone?
Avulsion Fracture
What kind of fracture is it when the lateral malleolus, the medial malleolus and the distal posterior aspect of the tibia? It is sometimes accompanied by ligament damage and dislocation.
Trimalleolar Frcature
What kind of fracture is it when the proximal third of the ulna with dislocation of the proximal head of the radius?
Monteggia Fracture
What kind of fracture is it when partial dislocation of the ankle, with fracturing of the fibula within 6-7 cm above the lateral malleolus and rupture of the distal tibiofibular ligaments of the ankle?
Pott’s Fracture
What kind of fracture occurs from spinal injury usually from a high energy impact? IE. Diving into a pool
Burst Fracture
What kind of fracture occurs when one or more bones in the spine weaken and crumple?
Compression Fracture
What kind of fracture is specific to the patella, fracture lines radiate out from a center point in a star-like pattern?
Stellate Fracture
What kind of fracture occurs when the broken ends of the bone are jammed together by the force of the injury?
Impacted Fracture
What kind of fracture of the distal 1/3 of one the metatarsal, usually the 2nd or 3rd because of recumbent stress? EI. Marching
March Fracture
There are ___ main types of Skull Fractures.
4
What kind of fracture is a deformity of the orbital floor of the medial wall resulting from impact? Creating a tear drop pattern
Blowout Fracture of the Orbit
What is the most common skeletal manifestation caused by disease?
Fracture
What is the lack of osteoblasts and poor collagen formation cause weak bones that easily fracture?
Osteogenesis Imperfecta “ Brittle Bone Disease”
What is a disease in which the density and quality of bone are reduced so the risk of fracture is increased?
Osteoporosis
