FRACTURES OF THE HEAD AND NECK OF THE RADIUS

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In this paper I present the end-results, as far as are known, of forty-seven cases of fracture of the head and neck of the radius. These fractures were for the most part simple fractures of the head and neck, or some part of them. Some were comminuted fractures of the head, with and without displacement of the fragment or fragments, and others were more severe and complicated fractures involving the whole elbow joint structure, generally comminuted in type and precluding any possibility of a good functional joint. Yet the results on the whole were uncommonly good, and fractures of the head of the radius are of rather surprising frequency, much more so, in fact, than the literature, which is scanty, leads one to suspect. In a review of the literature, which is at the best scanty, and not particularly satisfactory from the point of view of pathology or the study

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