A 28-year-old man sustains a wrist injury after a motor vehicle accident with the wrist in flexion. Clinical examination shows a volar (palmar) prominence at the wrist with loss of the normal dorsal contour. Which clinical finding best differentiates this injury from a typical Colles fracture sustained by an elderly woman falling on an outstretched hand?
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