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A 15-year-old otherwise healthy, right-hand dominant male fell on his outstretched arm sustaining a displaced, left Salter-Harris type II distal radius physeal fracture. The fracture underwent successful closed reduction under conscious sedation in the emergency department with application of a well-molded long-arm cast. He was seen for clinical and radiographic follow-up at 10 days with maintained, acceptable reduction. At his 3-week follow-up visit, he was converted to a short-arm cast. The fracture went onto union with satisfactory alignment in 6 weeks. At the last follow-up, he had both a good clinical and radiographic outcome, without physeal arrest or residual deformity.
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Ottomeyer, C., Iobst, C.A. (2020). Physeal Fracture of the Distal Radius. In: Iobst, C., Frick, S. (eds) Pediatric Orthopedic Trauma Case Atlas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29980-8_152
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