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Compression
Fracture occurs in a vertebra from trauma or pathology leading to the vertebra being crushed
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Fracture occurs in a vertebra from trauma or pathology leading to the vertebra being crushed
Compression
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Fracture occurs in an area of bone weakened by disease
Pothologic
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Pathologic
Fracture occures in an area of bone weakened by disease
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Fracture dose not extend completely across the bone
Incomplete
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Incomplete
Fracture dose not extend completely across the bone
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Bone is broken, but the skin is not
Closed
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Closed
Bone is broken, but the skin is not
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One side breaks, the other bends
Greenstick
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Greenstick
One side breaks, the other bends
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One bone fragment is driven into the other, with resulting shortening of a limb
Impacted
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Impacted
One bone fragment is driven into the other, with resulting shortening of a limb
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Fracture spirals a round the long axis of the bone
Spiral
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Spiral
Fracture sprials a round the long axis of the bone
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The bone breaks into several pieces, usually two major pieces and several smaller ones
Comminuted
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Comminuted
The bone breaks into several pieces, usually two major pieces and several smaller ones
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A bone is broken into at least two fragments
Complete
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Complete
A bone is broken into at least two fragments
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The fractured bone parts are out of alignment
Displaced
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Displaced
The fractured bone parts are out of alignment
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A fragment of the fractured bone breaks the skin, or a wound extends to the site of the fracture
Open
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Open
A fragment of the fractured bone breaks the skin, or a wound extends to the site of the fracture
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Diagonal fracture runs across the long axis of the bone
Oblique
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Oblique
Diagonal fracture runs across the long axis of the bone
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The fracture is at a right angle to the long axis of the bone
Transverse
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Transverse
The fracture is at a right angle to the long axis of the bone
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Fracture runs parallel to the long axis of the bone
Linear
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Linear
Fracture runs parallel to the long axis of the bone
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