How to tell a fracture from a radiograph

To see the fracture from the film, you need to take a frontal and lateral X-ray of the fracture site, which is now done clinically as a DR film. On the film, you can see that the fracture site has cracks, or there are jagged fracture ends, or the fracture ends have been displaced laterally, obliquely, or spirally, and there are multiple fragmented bone fragments which are also known as comminuted fractures. Of course, there are also fractures where the fracture ends are embedded together and the limb becomes shorter, and other fractures, such as thoracic, lumbar, cervical and other cancellous bones, can be seen on the film, the shape of the bone has changed, that is, the height is flattened compared to the normal height of the vertebrae, this is called compression fracture, etc., must be judged professionally by the imaging doctor and orthopedic surgeon, their own judgment may sometimes miss the diagnosis, misdiagnosis This is called compression fracture.