NR509 Quiz 5 Update 2022 Complete Solution

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A 55-year-old female presents to the clinic with complaints of left hand and wrist pain and swelling after a slip and fall on the ice yesterday. On examination, the clinician notes tenderness at the... “anatomical snuffbox.” This finding most likely indicates which of the following? Scaphoid fracture. Ulnar styloid fracture. Hamate fracture. Radial head fracture. There is tenderness over the “anatomical snuffbox” in a scaphoid (aka navicular) fracture, the most common injury of the carpal bones. Poor blood supply puts the scaphoid bone at risk of avascular necrosis; therefore, wrist pain and tenderness in the anatomical snuffbox, even without history of antecedent trauma, warrant a wrist x-ray. [Show More]

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