Smith's fracture

Smith's fracture
a fracture just above the wrist, across the distal (far) end of the radius, resulting in volar (forward) displacement of the hand and wrist below the fracture. It is the reverse of Colles' fracture.
R. W. Smith (1807-73), Irish surgeon

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