Displaced fat pads in trauma to the elbow.
A study was made of all the X-ray films of elbows taken in a casualty department in 1975, to determine the significance of posterior fat pad displacement. Posterior displacement was always found to indicate a fracture, whereas anterior displacement occasionally occurred without a fracture.
D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004550:Elbow / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D006810:Humeral Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D011885:Radius Fractures / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D000092464:Elbow Injuries