Case: Upper limb radiograph #16271576
Upper limb Advanced
Read this radiograph systematically before revealing the answer. What is the main abnormality?
Image: Hellerhoff via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized and converted to WebP
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Answer: Rolando fracture
What to look for in rolando fracture
- Comminuted (Y/T) fracture of the 1st MC base.
Description by the image author (may be in another language): Basistrümmerfraktur des ersten Mittelhandknochens mit Gelenkbeteiligung: Rolando-Fraktur.
Educational case. The diagnosis comes from the image's documented source; the "what to look for" list describes the condition in general and is not a report of this individual image.
