The obvious - oblique fracture of distal radius. What's not obvious is the NAME of this kind of fracture if that's what they are looking for. lol. W/e. .
Hutchinson's Fracture Hutchinson's fracture, or chauffeur's fracture, is an intra-articular fracture of the radial styloid. The mechanism of injury is usually a direct blow or fall resulting in trauma to the radial side of the wrist. The term chauffeur's fracture originated in the era of hand-cranked automobiles, when this injury occurred because of direct trauma to the radial side of the wrist from the recoil of the motor crank. The fracture is seen best on the PA view of the wrist as a transverse fracture of the radial metaphysis with extension through the radial styloid into the radiocarpal joint. Nondisplaced fractures may be immobilized in a sugar-tong splint, with the patient given urgent orthopedic referral; definitive treatment is in a short arm cast. However, displaced fractures, which are frequently associated with scapholunate ligament disruption, require open or closed reduction and fixation Post-traumatic arthritis is a common complication of radial styloid fractures and more common with displacement and scapholunate ligament disruption.
