FRACTURES
A fracture may be defined as a sudden solution in the continuity of a bone.
Pathological Fractures
A pathological fracture has as its primary cause some diseased state of the bone, which permits of its giving way on the application of a force which would be insufficient to break a healthy bone. It cannot be too strongly emphasised that when a bone is found to have been broken by a slight degree of violence, the presence of some...
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