The highest interobserver agreement at the first reading was achieved by the consultants, with a percentage of agreement of 67.6%, and a kappa value of 0.66 (Table 3). The overall interobserver ...

Correspondence to Dr Liam Richard West, Department of Orthopaedics, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC 3050, Australia; liamwestsem{at}hotmail.co.uk AO Surgery Reference (AOSR) is produced ...

Your radius is one of the two bones in your forearm, along with the ulna. It’s the bone that attaches closest to your thumb. A radius fracture, sometimes called a radial fracture, is a break of this ...

What is Distal Radius Fracture? The larger of the two bones of the forearm is known as radius. The end of the arm towards the wrist is called the distal end. When the area of the radius near the wrist ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN FRANCISCO — Arthroscopy did not aid in the reduction of intraarticular distal radius fractures when combined ...

Intra-articular fractures of the distal radius (IFDR) represent high energy, complex, unstable injuries, and account for approximately one-sixth of the fractures observed in emergency rooms. 1,2 The ...

We conclude that the classification tested in this study is reliable and reproducible when applied by raters experienced in fracture management. More focus on the different fracture categories and ...