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What is the medical term meaning hairline fracture?
A hairline fracture is a nondisplaced fracture.
What is closed or nondisplaced fracture?
Calcaneal fractures, also known as Lover's fracture and Don Juan fracture, are a fracture of the calcaneus or heel. A Nondisplaced calcaneus fracture is a stable fracture where the broken ends of the bones meet up correctly and are aligned.
What does subchondral lucency mean and what does it indicate?
Subchondral lucences are clear-appearing areas under the cartilage.
What is subchondral?
Related to bone condyles that have swelling beneath the surface. The condyles are the rounded lumpy bits at the end of long thin bones: finger bones (phalanges) or thigh (femur). Subchondral odema occurs commonly when thes bones are forced together sometimes with repeated running on hard surfaces sub femoral or tibial chondral/plataeu or when staving your finger during basket ball straight finger compression. Can take a long time to settle but can settle to no symptoms.
What is a displaced fracture?
What is a nondisplaced fracture involving the greater tuberosity? nondisplaced fracture//the bone cracks with the broken peices still in alignment. Tuberosity//knoblike process. Process// prominant projection. There are many tuberosities on many of our bones. When you say greater, I assume it is in the femur, the "Greater Trochanter"? The femur has a gluteal tuberosity below the Greater Trochanter. Either way its a cracked bone where the tuberosity is or was.
How are most nondisplaced femoral neck fractures treated in younger patients?
crutches
What is a subchondral cyst in greater tuberosity?
ageing or degenertive enthesopathy
What are subchondral cystic changes?
it is a fluid filled sac under the cartilage
What the function of the subchondral plate?
Helps transmitting loads from the cartilage into the underlying cancellous bone.
Does a person with subchondral cysts and sclerosis within the roof of the acetabulum need a hip replacement?
yes
What is the break of a mineral called?
strike
What is a simple fracture and a compound fracture?
a fracture in which skin is intact at site of fracture is a closed fracture or simple fracture whereas compound fracture or an open fracture is a fracture in which the skin is perforated and there is an open wound down to the site of the fracture.
