Bennett's Fracture Wheeless (Visit this link)
most frequent of all thumb frx;
- described in 1882 by Dr. Edward Bennet;
- it is a frx dislocation, intra-articular frx at base of carpometacarpal joint of the thumb;
- involves an oblique intraarticular metacarpal frx (known as the palmar beak fragment) which remains attached
to the palmar beak ligament
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics
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