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- Bone fragments pulled away from the underlying bone surface or torn totally away from the body part
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
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Crushed, small, crumbled-type bone fragments near the fracture |
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Break extends across the entire section of the bone |
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Jagged fracture components fit together like teeth on a gear |
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Bone bent but broken only on one side (common in children) |
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Common in the skull-fracture components are small and aligned; if the fracture is pushed downward, called a depressed fracture. |
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One end of the fracture driven into the diaphysis of the other fragment |
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Some fracture components still partially joined |
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Fracture line parallel to the bone's long axis |
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Nondisplaced, closed, or simple fracture |
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Fracture that does not produce an open wound in the skin |
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Fracture line slanted or diagonal to the longitudinal axis |
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Pathological (spontaneous) fractures |
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Bone fracture caused by weakening of of the bone by a disease, thus making normal movements too stressful for the bone to bear. |
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Fracture of the lower part of the tibia |
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Fracture line spiraling around the long axis. |
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Bone fracture caused by mechanical stress (pressure) |
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Fracture line at a right angle to the long axis of the bone. |
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