A Colles’ wrist fracture occurs when the radius bone in your forearm breaks. It’s also known as a distal radius fracture, transverse wrist fracture, or a dinner-fork deformity of the wrist. It’s named ...
A broken wrist is what we often call a Colles fracture. Despite this, it is the radius bone in the forearm that breaks and not the carpal bones of the wrist. The radius is the larger of the two bones ...
Read at the annual meeting of the New England Surgical Society, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 5, 1941. † Assistant professor of orthopedic surgery, Harvard Medical School; associate surgeon, ...
What is Smith's Fracture? Smith's Fracture, also known as a reverse Colles' fracture or Goyrand-Smith's fracture, is a fracture involving the distal forearm. The condition has been named after Robert ...
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, it's a ...