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Wounds and Injuries > Fractures, Bone > Fractures, Closed

Preferred term

Fractures, Closed  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Fracture, Occult
  • Fractures, Occult
  • Occult Fracture
  • Occult Fractures

Note

  • fract not causing an open wound; IM; coord with precoord organ/fract term (IM), as "closed fract of tibia" = FRACTURES, CLOSED (IM) + TIBIAL FRACTURES (IM); if no precoord organ/fract term is available, coord IM with organ /inj (IM), as "closed fract of fibula" = FRACTURES, CLOSED (IM) + FIBULA /inj (IM)

Scope note

  • Fractures in which the break in bone is not accompanied by an external wound.

History note

  • 86(73); was see under FRACTURES 1975-85, was Prov 1973-74

In other languages

  • suljetut murtumat

    Finnish

  • fractura simplex
  • suljettu fraktuura
  • suljettu murtuma
  • suljetut fraktuurat
  • umpimurtuma
  • umpimurtumat
  • Slutna frakturer

    Swedish

  • Ockulta frakturer

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005596

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