Day 160 - 3 Fractured Ribs!
Tuesday, June 8th, 2021 Changes/Updates: James is getting a full x-ray since yesterday's showed us some new findings. We want to make sure we weren't missing anything else. CLINICAL INDICATION: Recent screening for rickets at left wrist suggesting presence of healing fracture distal radius, now for a more inconclusive survey to evaluate for the possibility of other fractures. FINDINGS: There is callus associated with healing posterior right rib fractures, seventh, eighth, and ninth. There is a tiny bony projection from the medial proximal right tibia which is nonspecific, not necessarily of fracture. There is some mature formed periosteal reaction involving the femoral shafts likely the residua of a prior periostitis and possibly a normal physiological phenomenon. Periosteal reactions which had been present at the humeri on the prior study are now less conspicuous. IMPRESSION: *IN ADDITION TO THE HEALING/HEALED FRACTURE OF THE DISTAL LEFT RADIAL METAPHYSIS, ...