Your patient is a football player who had his right foot planted and was tackled from the left rear, causing his body to rotate around the axis of his right lower extremity. This mechanism is most consistent with which of the following types of fractures?

A) Oblique
B) Spiral
C) Impacted
D) Comminuted


Answer: B) Spiral

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