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== Cause ==
== Cause ==
* Direct blow
* road / traffic accidents
* contact sports
* Falling


== Sign and Symptoms ==
== Sign and Symptoms ==

Revision as of 10:27, 1 August 2018

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohammadmain Rezazadehsaatlou[2] ;

Overview

The forearm comprises of 2 long bones: radius and the ulna; they forms joints with the humerus. The ulna fracture is known as the break in the ulna bone during any trauma affecting this side of body. An ulna as one of the long bones of the forearm is located in in human upper limb and its fracture is a relatively common condition. Forearm bones can break in different ways: they can break into many pieces or can crack just slightly. These broken pieces my line up straight or be in a different location.

Epidemiology and demographics

This fracture is common among the elderly people but it can be found among the younger patient. The fracture of ulna usually occurs in combination with other injuries such as a sprained or dislocated wrist or elbow, a fractured radius, or other fractures of the hand, wrist or forearm. Based on the affected area during the trauma the severity and type of injuries varies from avulsion fracture, stress fracture, medial epicondyle fracture, olecranon fracture, displaced fracture, un-displaced fracture to the greenstick, comminuted.

Cause

  • Direct blow
  • road / traffic accidents
  • contact sports
  • Falling

Sign and Symptoms

Daignosis

Treatment

Prognosis

Pathophysiology

Natural history, complications, and prognosis

Diagnosis :

signs and symptoms/ Diagnostics criteria / physical examination/ laboratory evaluation/ x ray/ ct/ mri/ other imaginings/ other diagnostic evaluation

Treatment:

Non surgical therapy/ surgical therapy/ cost effectiveness of therapy/

Prevention:

primary prevention/secondary prevention

Cases studies

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