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This is X-ray of a 27 year old gentleman with history of pain following injury. What is the diagnosis?

A
Undisplaced Fracture Scaphoid
B
Perilunate dislocation
C
Boxer's fracture
D
Chauffeur's fracture
High-Yield Explanation
Ans. C. Boxer's fractureIt is a ventrally displaced fracture through the neck of the 5th metacarpal, usually occurs in boxers.Fractures with eponyms* Aviators: fracture of the neck of the talus* Barton's: distal radius, intra- articular fracture* Bennett's: fracture of base of the 1st metacarpal, intra-articular* Boxers: fracture of neck of 5th metacarpal* Bumper: comminuted fracture of lateral condyle of the tibia* Chauffer's: Radial styloid fracture* Colles': Distal radius extra-articular fracture with dorsal tilt of the distal fragment* Cotton's: trimalleolar ankle fracture* Galeazzi: fracture of distal 1/2 of the radius with dislocation of distal radio- ulnar joint* Hangman's: fracture pedicle- lamina of C2 vertebra* Jones': fracture of the base of the 5th metatarsal* Malgaigne's: Pelvic ring disruption with both pubic rami and sacro- iliac injury on the same side* Mallet: avulsion of attachment of ext tendon from base of the distal phalanx* March: stress fracture of shaft of 2nd metatarsal

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