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bone fracture

Fracture of bone (breaks or rupture in bones or cartilages)

symptom, phenomenon, disease, medical condition, medical concept, cause, Orthopaedic conditions

Wikipedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_fracture
Symptoms: bone pain, peripheral neuropathy, Arthropathy, Crepitus
ICD Code: "829", "T14.2"
Class: ▶
phenomenon, medical condition, symptom, Orthopaedic conditions, medical concept, …
cause, disease
Causes: ▶
prostate cancer, multiple myeloma, Paget's disease of bone, hip fracture, Rib fracture, …
skull fracture, fibrous dysplasia of bone, Pelvic fracture, leg pain
Cause of: ▶
osteoarthritis, compartment syndrome, complex regional pain syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, fat embolism, …
bone pain, Fracture non-union, Volkmann ischaemic contracture, Hypovolaemic shock, Anemia secondary to blood loss, Arthropathy, Alkaline phosphatase bone isoenzyme levels raised (plasma or serum), Limb ischaemia, Open fracture, Blood vessel trauma
Related Websites: ▶
http://gentili.net/fracturemain.asp, http://www.aftertheinjury.org, http://www.ortho-hub.com, http://www.orthoinfo.aaos.org, http://www.bonefixator.com/bone_fracture/fractures_and_healing_1.html, …
http://www.auslandsjahr.eu/2007/03/29/broken-leg-beinbruch-videos, http://www.aofoundation.org/wps/portal/surgeryskully, http://www.ota.org/compendium/compendium.html, http://www.wildernessmanuals.com/manual_4/chpt_4/index.html
Freebase ID: "/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000036f836"
Diseases DB id: "4939"
Mesh ID: "D050723"
OpenCyc ID: "Mx4rwP1q15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA"
TCM GeneDIT URI: http://purl.org/net/tcm/tcm.lifescience.ntu.edu.tw/id/disease/Fractures_Bone
DBPedia URI: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bone_fracture
Cause: ▶
hip fracture; Rib fracture; Colles' fracture; skull fracture; Pelvic fracture; …
Pathological fracture; Fracture, humerus, supracondylar; Child abuse
Rare Terms: ▶
"simple fracture"; "broken leg"; "broken arm"; "oblique fracture"; "closed fracture"; …
"open fracture"; "fractures, bone"; "comminuted fracture"; "bone breakage"; "bone breaking"; "compound fracture"; "complex fracture"; "bone fractures"; "broken bone"; "hair line fracture"; "fracture bone"; "fractured bone"; "break"; "fx"
Freebase Primary MID: "/m/03fz1q"

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