Name the eponymous fracture that may be considered the opposite of a Smith fracture?
Colles fracture.
What is the mechanism of Smith's fracture?
Fall with a flexed wrist, or direct blow to the back of the wrist.
X-ray wrist joint AP and lateral views showing a fracture involving the distal radius with volar angulation of the fractured distal fragment, representing a Smith fracture. Widening of the scapholunate interval is also noted.