A 24 y/o guy presents in ED with the left hand upraised.
“I fell off my bike yesterday – he says – I remember a serious impact with an outstreched palm.”
There aren’t wounds, he feels pain on the radial side of left wrist, there is an anatomical snuffbox tenderness. The clamp sign is positive, but the resisted pronation maneuvre and the longitudinal compression test are negative.
Is it broken? Asks worried the guy.
