Tag: radius
Smith’s Fracture
This patient had a displaced looking wrist. However the POCUS didn’t look particularly displaced at all. I was wondering about the discrepancy but not enough to get the old brain in gear (do U/S waves cause dementia in the operator?). I should have learned from my last POCUS on a Smith’s that they look very […]
Don’t be subtle: Use POCUS for hard to see fractures
A young man had clinically a distal radius fracture. The X-ray looked negative to myself and the radiologist. But with a little bit of fiddling I found the # on U/S. Before I would have said this was a Salter fracture through the epiphysis. POCUS clearly showed the # proximal to the epiphysis. Another fellow […]
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