Rolando fracture

Rolando fracture
Complete break at base of thumb
SpecialtyHand surgery

The Rolando fracture is a type of broken finger involving the base of the thumb.[1]

It is an intra-articular fracture.[2]

It was first described in 1910 by Silvio Rolando.[3] It is typically T- or Y-shaped.[4]

  1. ^ White, Timothy O.; Mackenzie, Samuel P.; Gray, Alasdair J. (2016). "13. Hand". McRae's Orthopaedic Trauma and Emergency Fracture Management (3rd ed.). Elsevier. pp. 275–277. ISBN 978-0-7020-5728-1.
  2. ^ "Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics".
  3. ^ Rolando S. Fracture de la base du premier metacarpien et principalement sur une variete` non encore e`crite. Presse Med 1910;33:303–4 [in French].
  4. ^ Feletti, Francesco; Varacallo, Matthew (2022). "Rolando Fractures". StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. PMID 31194364.
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