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Holding institution
Facultad de Medicina, UNAM
Collection
FAC MED (UNAM-MEX)
Sex
Male
Age
40 years
Country of origin
Mexico

Scientific notes

Fractures are present on the left humerus, right ulna, right radius, right fibula, and left femur. Fractures are antemortem and consolidated.
All fractured bones show the same callus process, indicating that the fractures occurred at approximately the same time.

Provenance

Hospital Balbuena

4 lesions

blunt

Bones
Humerus
Side
Left
Timing
Antemortem
Force
Direct
Fracture type
Flexion

Unknown Unknown

  • Periostitis Infectious
    Periostitis reaction around the fracture.
    Periostitis is a bone response, not a cause. It can be infectious, traumatic, neoplastic or venous in origin. Filed under infectious because that is the column the contributor recorded it in.

Shaft fracture. Shortening. Angulated.

  • Slightly angulated and rotated, fractured.

    photo: Socorro Baez Molgado<br /> <a href="http://forost.org/seminar/Tesis6OCT_soco.zip"><img src="http://forost.org/img/tesis_soco.jpg" width="99px"/></a> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" rel="dc:type">work</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License</a>.

blunt

Bones
Ulna
Side
Right
Timing
Antemortem
Force
Direct
Fracture type
Flexion

Unknown Unknown

  • Periostitis Infectious
    Periostitis reaction around the fracture
    Periostitis is a bone response, not a cause. It can be infectious, traumatic, neoplastic or venous in origin. Filed under infectious because that is the column the contributor recorded it in.

Transverse fracture in the shaft. Angulated.

  • Fracture, well aligned.

    photo: Socorro Baez Molgado<br /> <a href="http://forost.org/seminar/Tesis6OCT_soco.zip"><img src="http://forost.org/img/tesis_soco.jpg" width="99px"/></a> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" rel="dc:type">work</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License</a>.

blunt

Bones
Femur
Side
Left
Timing
Antemortem
Force
Direct
Fracture type
Flexion, Tension

Unknown Unknown

  • Periostitis Infectious
    Periostitis reaction around the fracture
    Periostitis is a bone response, not a cause. It can be infectious, traumatic, neoplastic or venous in origin. Filed under infectious because that is the column the contributor recorded it in.

Comminuted fracture at the shaft. Intramedular screw. Shortening. Osseus bubble at reaction metal screw.

  • Comminuted fracture with osteomyelitis reaction. Rumtcher intermedullary screw. Bone formation around the distal part of the screw (as bubble bone).

    photo: Socorro Baez Molgado<br /> <a href="http://forost.org/seminar/Tesis6OCT_soco.zip"><img src="http://forost.org/img/tesis_soco.jpg" width="99px"/></a> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" rel="dc:type">work</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License</a>.

blunt

Bones
Fibula
Side
Right
Timing
Antemortem
Force
Direct
Fracture type
Flexion

Unknown Unknown

  • Periostitis Infectious
    Periostitis reaction around the fracture.
    Periostitis is a bone response, not a cause. It can be infectious, traumatic, neoplastic or venous in origin. Filed under infectious because that is the column the contributor recorded it in.

Proximal end fracture.

  • Transverse fracture, well aligned.

    photo: Socorro Baez Molgado<br /> <a href="http://forost.org/seminar/Tesis6OCT_soco.zip"><img src="http://forost.org/img/tesis_soco.jpg" width="99px"/></a> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />This <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" rel="dc:type">work</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License</a>.

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Facultad de Medicina, UNAM. FAC MED (UNAM-MEX). catalogue no. UNAM-124

Facultad de Medicina, UNAM