Fracture of upper third shaft of tibia in a 60 years old lady.
The fracture is comminuted and has a large butterfly fragment.
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Fracture of upper third shaft of tibia in a 60 years old lady.
The fracture is comminuted and has a large butterfly fragment.
Xray of knee and upper tibia showing united fracture of Upper tibia.
The xray belongs to 27 years old male who was injured in an accident and had an undisplaced fracture of upper tibia.
Twenty seven year old girl fell fro stairs and injured her leg. Xray of the leg revealed a comminuted fracture of the the tibia.
The fracture was minimally displaced and was treated with above knee cast.
52 years old truck driver fell from roof of the truck while sleeping and injured his leg. Xray revealed a minimally displaced highly comminuted fracture of tibia in lower third of the leg.

Comminuted Fracture of Tibia With Minimal Displacement
The fracture was treated with above knee cast. The xray shown above was taken after 3 weeks of cast application.
53 years old man struck by a motorcycle and injured his leg. xray revealed a comminuted fracture of tibia, fracture of fibula and an undisplaced fracture of medial malleolus.
The arrow marks the fracture of medial malleolus
54 years old male got injured with motorbike. Xray revealed comminuted fracture of tibia with fracture fibula. There was a fracture of medial malleolus also.
There is a large butterfly fragment visible in tibia

Comminuted Fracture of Lower End Tibia With Fracture of Fibula and Medial Malleolus
The patient was advised internal fixation with long lower tibial plate. The patient refused the surgery.
Xray of comminuted fracture of shaft of tibia in 37 years old male injured in motor vehicle accident.

Transeverse Comminuted Fracture TIbia
The limb is splinted with Cramer wire which is visible in one view.
Fracture of distal third of tibia and fibula after tibia has been fixed with interlock nail.

Fracture of TIbia and Fibula with Tibia Fixed With Interlock Nail
The xray is two weeks after the surgery.
This xray is follow up of the injury posted here.

Uniting Fracture Tibia Showing Callus
As noted in the previous post, the patient was treated with external fixator and skin graft. It was followed by removal of fixator at 8 weeks and application of patellar tendon bearing plaster cast.
This xray was taken after 4 months of the treatment.
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AP and Lateral Views of fracture of tibia and fibula in distal third of leg.

Spiral Fracture of Lower tibia With Fracture Fibula
Fracture of the tibia is spiral in nature and is comminuted.
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