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  2. Greenstick fracture - Wikipedia

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    A greenstick fracture is a fracture in a young, soft bone in which the bone bends and breaks. Greenstick fractures occur most often during infancy and childhood when bones are soft. The name is by analogy with green (i.e., fresh) wood which similarly breaks on the outside when bent.

  3. Mandibular fracture - Wikipedia

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    Rarely they may be due to osteonecrosis or tumors in the bone. [1] The most common area of fracture is at the condyle (36%), body (21%), angle (20%) and symphysis (14%). [1] Rarely the fracture may occur at the ramus (3%) or coronoid process (2%). While a diagnosis can occasionally be made with plain X-ray, modern CT scans are more accurate. [1]

  4. Distal radius fracture - Wikipedia

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    Buckle fractures are an incomplete break in the bone that involves the cortex (outside) of the bone. Buckle fractures are stable and are the most common type. [4] Greenstick fractures are a bone that is broken only on one side and the bone bows to the other side. [4] Greenstick fractures are unstable and often occur in younger children.

  5. Müller AO Classification of fractures - Wikipedia

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    The Müller AO Classification of fractures is a system for classifying bone fractures initially published in 1987 [1] by the AO Foundation as a method of categorizing injuries according to therognosis of the patient's anatomical and functional outcome. "AO" is an initialism for the German "Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen", the ...

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  8. Bone fracture - Wikipedia

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    An open fracture (or compound fracture) is a bone fracture where the broken bone breaks through the skin. [2] A bone fracture may be the result of high force impact or stress , or a minimal trauma injury as a result of certain medical conditions that weaken the bones, such as osteoporosis , osteopenia , bone cancer , or osteogenesis imperfecta ...

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    The military installation, a bucolic 6,400 acre campus in the northern part of New Jersey, was established in 1880 and produced gunpowder until just after World War I.