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About a painful wrist after a forced dorsiflexion trauma
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- accidental falls
- Trauma, extremity
- x-ray
- emergency department
- musculo-skeletal, fractures and dislocations
Clinical introduction
A young adult without medical history was admitted a day following right wrist trauma. He fell from a height of three stairs with forced dorsiflexion of his wrist, and complained of severe pain and functional disability.
Clinical examination revealed a mildly swollen wrist with tenderness on dorsal palpation. …