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Snap It ! Broken Bone X-Rays |
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PuppyJuice.com presents Snap It! Broken Bone X-Rays! Most of the x-rays, broken bones, and bone fractures you're going to see on our site were sent to us from a teaching hospital medical center, where they are used to teach their students. The names and dates have been removed from the broken bone x-rays to protect the patient's identity. Some of the bone fractures in the x-rays were taken very soon after the bones were broken, some x-rays were taken after the bone fractures were repaired. Think you're having a bad day, check out the bad days these unfortunate people had! |
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 This broken bone x-ray picture ( fracture ) is of a woman who got her hand slammed in the car door as it closed and she broke her middle finger. |
 This broken bone x-ray picture is from a guy that fell as he was climbing up the side of a small cliff. When he landed his arm hit a large rock and he fractured both bones in his arm. |
 This picture is from a radiology image of a x-ray showing a repair on damaged discs in this patient's spine. |
 Broken bone x-ray picture ( fracture ) of a person who was in an argument and was hit with a baseball bat, they suffered this broken bone in their arm as part of their injuries. |
 She left her glasses on. We added this x-ray picture just because we thought it was funny! |
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 This x-ray shows an example of the hardware put in after a bone is broken. Most of the time the hardware remains for the patient's lifetime even though the broken bones ( fractures ) have healed. |
 Picture of a x-ray showing a screw holding the broken bone ( fracture ) together so it can heal. |
 Amazing radiology image of a Cat Scan done in a 3D view. |
 Picture of a broken bone x-ray of a repaired leg that is fractured. Plate and screws holding the broken bones together. Notice the staples in the skin where the patient was opened up. |
 Broken bone x-ray picture of a repaired wrist. Plate and screws holding the broken bones ( fracture ) together. |
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Within a year of German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovery of x-rays in 1895, people throughout the world knew about Roentgen's work and had seen his first x-ray picture — his wife Bertha's hand, showing her bones, wedding ring, and all. Even before Roentgen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901 for his discovery, x-ray studios were popping up that sold bone portraits for display in the home. As their popularity grew, some publications contained inflated claims about x-rays — they could restore vision to the blind, they could raise the dead. Other people expressed a far more skeptical view: "I can see no future in the field," the head of one broken bone x-ray clinic reportedly proclaimed. "All the bones of the body and foreign bodies have been demonstrated." But broken bone x-ray was far from a dead-end technology. Instead, it marked the start of a revolution in medical diagnosis. Like other medical imaging technologies that followed, including ultrasound, computed tomography ( or Cat Scan ) scanning, and magnetic resonance imaging ( or MRI ), x-ray can help doctors narrow down the causes of a patient's symptoms without surgery and sometimes diagnose an illness or broken bone before symptoms even appear. X-ray imaging can be a useful first step in treating a range of problems, from a simple broken bone to a cancerous tumor. Roentgen labeled the rays he discovered with the scientific symbol "X," meaning unknown, because he didn't understand their makeup at first. x-rays are actually electromagnetic waves. When they are passed through a patient's body to a photographic film on the other side, they create a picture of internal body structures called a radiograph. The less dense a structure of the body is, the more radiation passes through it and reaches the film. The x-rays expose the film, changing its color after it is developed to gray or black, much like light would darken photographic film. Bones, as well as tumors, are more dense than soft tissues. They appear white or light on the x-ray film because they absorb much of the radiation, leaving the film only slightly exposed. Structures that are less solid than bone, such as skin, fat, muscles, blood vessels, and the lungs, intestines, and other organs, appear darker on the film because they let more of the x-rays pass through. Likewise, a break in a bone allows the x-ray beams to pass through, so the break in the broken bone appears as a dark line in the otherwise white bone. To make certain organs stand out more clearly, a "contrast medium" — a substance that blocks x-rays rather than transmitting any — can be introduced into the body, in the form of a drink or injection. Barium sulfate is commonly used to study the gastrointestinal tract, while iodine-containing dyes are often used to provide information about the gallbladder, kidneys, blood vessels (using a technique called angiography), or the cavities of the heart. Broken bone x-rays are a form of radiation similar to light rays, except that they are more energetic than light rays and are invisible to the human eye. They are created when an electric current is passed through a vacuum tube. X-rays are electromagnetic radiation that differentially penetrates structures within the body and creates images of these structures on photographic film or a fluorescent screen. These images are called diagnostic x-rays. The broken bone x-ray technologist positions the patient appropriately, so that the part of the body to be x-rayed will be between the x-ray beam and the film plate. Usually the individual either lies on an adjustable table or stands. Parts of the body that are especially sensitive to damage by x-rays (for example, the reproductive organs, the thyroid) are shielded with a lead apron. Lead is very dense and effectively protects the body by stopping all x-rays. X-rays pass through the body and strike a photographic plate and interact with silver molecules on the surface of the film. Once the film plates have been processed, dense material such as bone shows up as white, while softer tissue shows up as shades of gray, and airspaces look black. A radiologist, who is a physician trained to interpret diagnostic and broken bone x-rays, examines the pictures and reports to the doctor who ordered the tests. Plain film x-rays normally take only a few minutes to perform and can be done in a hospital, radiological center, clinic, doctor's or dentist's office, or at bedside with a portable x-ray machine. Although unnecessary exposure to radiation should be avoided, the low levels of radiation one is exposed to during a broken bone x-ray does not cause harm with a few exceptions. Pregnant women should not have x-rays unless in emergencies the benefits highly outweigh the risks. Exposure of the fetus to x-rays, especially during early pregnancy can increase the risk of the child later developing leukemia. Body parts not being x-rayed should be shielded with a lead apron, especially the testes, ovaries, and thyroid. Low dose exposure to x-rays creates minimal cell damage and minimal risk when x-rays are performed in an accredited facility. Doses of radiation received in most broken bone x-rays are quite similar to the environmental radiation one is exposed to simply by living on Earth. Although unnecessary x-rays should be avoided, in most cases, the benefits greatly outweigh the potentially small increased risk of exposure. |
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