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External fixation is placed directly on the fractured bone and usually is not removed after the fracture has healed?
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False.
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What types of materials or procedures are used for external fixation of a fracture?
splints and plaster casts
What is a term for a reduction on a displaced fracture?
manipulation
What form of fracture fixation is not usually removed after the fracture has healed?
internal fixation
Is a fractured elbow the same as a fractured olecranon?
Fracture of olecranon process is one type of fracture of ulna. You have many other parts of bones to be fractured in fracture of ulna.
What are open and closed reduction of fractures?
Open reduction of fracture involves making an incision in the skin and putting the fracture bones together and stabilizing with screws or plates or rod... Closed reduction means that no incision made the fracture is manipulated under a type of x- ray machine called fluoroscopy.
What is the past tense of to fracture?
Fractured
What is the medical term analogy for a broken wrist bone?
were your wrist breaks
What is percutaneous skeletal fixation?
Treatment of a fracture by placing fixation devices such as pins across the fracture site, usually under x-ray imaging.
What is the cpt code for open reduction internal fixation distal radius fracture with debridement of the open fracture site?
what is the cpt code for OPEN REDUCTION INTERNAL FIXATION LEFT DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE
Is there anything to heal a fracture?
it depends where it is fractured and how serious it is
What does fractured mean like a fractured finger?
a thiner brakage then a break. i fracture is smaller than a break
What is cpt code 27506 mean?
CPT code 27506 pertains to 'Open treatment of femoral shaft fracture, with or without external fixation, with insertion of intramedullary implant, with or without cerclage'
