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case_images: Radiographs after injury, showing the distal radius fracture
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case_images: He sustained a closed, dorsally angulated intra-articular fracture of his right distal radius (AO 23-C2) with extensive soft tissue swelling (Fig. 1).
case_images: Radiographs at 6 weeks after the index procedure. Broken plate
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case_images: Radiographs revealed a transverse break across the plate, at the level of the distal Combi-hole, directly overlying the fracture site (Fig. 2).
case_images: Radiographs at 20 weeks after the first revision procedure
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case_images: He was followed up in clinic with serial radiographs, at 8, 14 and 20 weeks after the first revision osteosynthesis (Fig. 3).
case_images: Radiographs at 26 weeks after the first revision procedure. Broken screws
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case_images: Radiographs at this appointment showed that the revision fixation had failed, this time with breaks across all the distal fragment screws (Fig. 4).
case_images: Radiographs at 6 weeks after the second revision procedure (with bone graft)
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case_images: He was non-tender over the distal radius when examined at 6 weeks after this second revision procedure, and all the wounds had healed well (Figs. 5, 6).
case_images: Clinical examination at 6 weeks after the second revision
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case_images: He was non-tender over the distal radius when examined at 6 weeks after this second revision procedure, and all the wounds had healed well (Figs. 5, 6).
case_images: Radiographs at 1 year after second revision
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case_images: The three distal screws had, however, broken, without the plate coming off the bone (Fig. 7).