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The Wrist Fracture That Should Ring an Alarm

September 11, 2026 1 min read Premium comments

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The Wrist Fracture That Should Ring an Alarm
Courtesy of Laboratoires Servier / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
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A 78-year-old woman trips, throws out her hand, and sustains a distal radius fracture.

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