A seventeen-year-old is brought to the emergency department complaining of leg pain after a motor vehicle crash. X-rays show a fracture of the femur with several bone fragments at the fracture site. You note that the skin above the fracture site is intact but bruised. This type of fracture is called:

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A seventeen-year-old is brought to the emergency department complaining of leg pain after a motor vehicle crash. X-rays show a fracture of the femur with several bone fragments at the fracture site. You note that the skin above the fracture site is intact but bruised. This type of fracture is called:






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