Patients with Colles' fractures have serious complications more frequently than is generally appreciated. A study of 565 fractures revealed 177 (31 per cent) with such complications as persistent ...

A Colles fracture a break in the radius bone of the forearm, very close to the wrist joint. It typically requires surgery to reduce or set the bones. You may have a long period of immobilization ...

NOVEMBER 16, 1843, marks the centenary of the death of Abraham Colles, the eminent anatomist ... clinical teaching and also lectured 011 surgery in his private rooms. In 1804 he was appointed ...