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Bennett's Fracture Wheeless
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Description: most frequent of all thumb frx;
- described in 1882 by Dr. Edward Bennet;
- it is a frx dislocation, intra-articular frx at base of carpometacarpal joint of the thumb;
- involves an oblique intraarticular metacarpal frx (known as the palmar beak fragment) which remains attached
to the palmar beak ligament
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
Type: Reference Material
Author/Contact: C.R.Wheeless
Institution: Duke
Primary Subject/Category:
- - OCOSH Classification: Trauma: Hand Injuries: Fractures
- - Orthopedic Topics: Regional Orthopaedics: Hand
- - Orthopedic Topics: Trauma: Hand
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Added: Thu Jan 31 2002
Last Modified: Tue Apr 01 2008