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| Pain and Swelling in the Wrist After Falling on the Outstretched Hand from a Height of Fifteen Feet1 | ||
| A thirty-year-old, right-hand-dominant man sustained an isolated injury to the right wrist after a fall from a height of approximately 15 ft (4.57 m). The patient reported that he fell on his outstretched hand with the wrist in extension. The right wrist was painful, swollen, and tender to palpation. The hand was neurovascularly intact with no sensory deficit in the distribution of the median nerve | ||
Radiographs were taken: Fig. 1 For larger view, click on image |
| What is the diagnosis? | ||
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