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Fractures of the distal radius are amongst the most common fractures seen in everyday orthopaedic practice. They were originally thought to be simple dislocations in the days prior to radiographic examination. The French physician, JL Petit, challenged this view in 1705, when he proposed that these post-traumatic deformities were actually caused by fractures of the bones and not dislocations of the joints. Some years later, the ideas of Claude Pouteau (published posthumously in 1783) supported this theory |
