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Colles

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Col·les (kls, klz), Abraham 1773-1843.
Irish surgeon who first described Colles' fracture of the wrist.


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McPhate M, Robertson VJ (1998) Physiotherapy treatment of Colles fractures: hands off or hands on.
You might also hear this called a Colles'' Fracture, after Abraham Colles, who described it, but this term is not used by current researchers in the field.
 
 
 
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