Tillaux fracture

Tillaux fracture
Other namesTillaux-Chaput avulsion fracture
X-ray of a Tillaux fracture in an 11 year old female
SpecialtyOrthopedic

A Tillaux fracture is a Salter–Harris type III fracture through the anterolateral aspect of the distal tibial epiphysis. It occurs in older adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 when the medial epiphysis had closed but before the lateral side has done so, due to an avulsion of the anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament, at the opposite end to a Wagstaffe-Le Fort avulsion fracture

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