complicated fracture
Skin-breaking bone injury
A complicated fracture is a bone break that damages surrounding structures—blood vessels, nerves, or organs.
The term distinguishes injuries where the fracture itself is only part of the problem from simple breaks where the bone alone is affected.
The complicated fracture had severed an artery, requiring emergency surgery.
- painfulCausing hurt or ache
- radiographImage from radiation exposure
- broken boneCracked skeletal element
- infection riskLikelihood of disease transmission
- breakInterrupt continuity
surgical repair · compartment syndrome · mangled · soft tissue damage · orthopedic · nerve damage · surgery · immobilization · splint · bone grafting · debridement · cast · nonunion · trauma · open wound · metal plates · injury · periosteum
complicated fracturesimple fracture
Break with intact skin
clean break · closed fracture · hairline fracture · stress fracture · greenstick fracture
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