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bone fracture

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Also known as broken bone

medical condition in which there is physical damage to the continuity of the bones

OverviewAI-generated

A bone fracture is a medical condition categorized under the International Classification of Primary Care, 2nd Edition (ICPC 2) with the identifier L76. It is also classified within the NCI Thesaurus using the code C3046. Visual resources related to this topic are organized in the Commons category titled "Bone fractures."

Academic literature on the subject is extensive, with 294,081 articles indexed in PubMed under the query "bone fracture." Additionally, 4,475 clinical trials are registered on ClinicalTrials.gov for the same query. The topic is referenced by 998 other encyclopedia articles in the Vinony graph.

Synthesized by Vinony from 8 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Health references

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Research

294,081 papers

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Clinical Trials

4,475 registered

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Encyclopedic overview

A bone fracture (abbreviated FRX or Fx, Fx, or #) is a medical condition in which there is a partial or complete break in the continuity of any bone in the body. In more severe cases, the bone may be broken into several fragments, known as a comminuted fracture. An open fracture (or compound fracture) is a bone fracture where the broken bone breaks through the skin.

A bone fracture may be the result of high force impact or stress, or a minimal trauma injury as a result of certain medical conditions that weaken the bones, such as osteoporosis, osteopenia, bone cancer, or osteogenesis imperfecta, where the fracture is then properly termed a pathologic fracture. Most bone fractures require urgent medical attention to prevent further injury.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bone fracture” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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