Plastic Bowing Fracture
Plastic Bowing Fracture
- Occurs in children.
- Also called greenstick fracture because the fracture resembles a young green twig being bent.
- There are three kinds of greenstick fractures:
- Transverse fracture - fracture halfway across the bone.
- Torus/buckling fracture - cortex is buckled and overlapped, caused by impaction.
- Bowing fracture - bent bone with no distinct cortex disruption.
- The bowing fracture is most common in the forearm, but they can also occur in the fibula.
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Note both the radial fracture and the bowed ulna.
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Casted.
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The ulna is bowed here. |
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