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Aetiology

Open fractures can occur due to direct mechanisms such as high-energy trauma, motor vehicular accidents, firearms and fall from height or indirect mechanisms like torsional injuries and fall from standing position. These mechanisms are usually associated with substantial degloving of the soft-tissues, but can also have a subtler appearance with a small poke hole and accumulation of clotted blood in the tissues. Depending on the nature of the trauma, it can cause different types of fractures:

Common fractures:

Result from significant trauma to the bone. This trauma can come from a variety of forces – a direct blow, axial loading, angular forces, torque, or a mixture of these.

Pathological fractures

Result from minor trauma to diseased bone. These preexisting processes include metastatic lesions, bone cysts, advanced osteoporosis, etc.

Fracture-dislocations

Severe injury in which both fracture and dislocation take place simultaneously.

Gunshot wounds

Caused by high-speed projectiles, they cause damage as they go through the tissue, through secondary shock wave and cavitation.

Comments

Thanks for the suggestions. I have a few notes:

• Please consult WP:MEDMOS for the appropriate headings for this type pf article. Since you are adding substantial content, I think you should rename and re-organize the section as per Wikipedia's manual of style. Each of these types of fractures may not need to be subheadings themselves. I think that the name needs to be used in the sentence. Open to feedback here though.
• References go immediately after the punctuation like this.¹

JenOttawa (talk) 01:19, 6 November 2018 (UTC)