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Web Site Search: Medical Photograph Library Friday, September 05, 2008 Find more information or images about this topic from the Web or the world's best medical journals by using the search boxes at the top of this page.   Broken hand resulting from punching (Boxer's fracture): A 13-year-old boy presented with right hand pain after striking it on a cement wall in anger. There was swelling and tenderness of the 5th long bone of the hand (metacarpal or the bone below the small finger). There was no evidence of rotational deformity. The x-ray of the hand demonstrates a minimally displaced but angulated deformity of the distant part of the bone just before the growth plate (the growth plate appears as a clear area on x-ray). (L.S.)

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