Fractures and dislocations of the knee and leg
52-year-old man who stumbled and fell to the ground. Lateral radiograph of the left knee. There is marked soft tissue swelling over the patella (arrowhead). There is a proximally distracted…
52-year-old man who stumbled and fell to the ground. Lateral radiograph of the left knee. There is marked soft tissue swelling over the patella (arrowhead). There is a proximally distracted…
5-year-old girl who fell onto her outstretched hand. PA radiograph of the right hand. There is fracture of the proximal phalanx of the small finger. The fracture passes through the…
30-year-old man injured in motor vehicle crash. AP (A) and lateral (B) radiographs of the left ankle. There are bimalleolar ankle fractures. There is a talar neck fracture (arrow) with…
45-year-old man who was the passenger on a motorcycle that crashed into the back of a parked truck. AP radiograph of the pelvis. There is mild widening of the right…
20-year-old woman who had a twisting foot injury on a trampoline. AP (A), oblique (B), and lateral (C) radiographs of the right foot. There is lateral subluxation of the first…
73-year-old woman in high-speed motor vehicle crash. Sagittal CT of the upper thoracic spine (left to right). There is retrolisthesis of T4 on T5 with widening of the facet joints…
Elderly woman injured in ground-level fall. AP radiograph of the left hip. There is a subcapital fracture of the femoral neck with impaction of the superior cortex (arrow) and minimal…
28-year-old man who was shot in the hand. PA radiograph of the left small finger. There is a comminuted fracture of the small finger involving the PIP joint with small…
47-year-old man with polytrauma. AP radiograph of the right distal tibia and fibula. There is a comminuted fracture of the tibia that extends from the joint line of the ankle…
44-year-old man who fell. Axial CT of the face. The tripod fracture is the most common zygomatico-orbital fracture. The most common cause is being struck in the face during an…