Describe what you see.

How would you manage this patient?

It’s an isolated closed injury with no signs of compartment. How would you proceed?

What is the fragment configuration you are faced with looking at this image?

What are your aims of surgery?

 

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Describe what you see.

When does this fracture pattern occur?

In what order does the distal tibial growth plate close and why important?

What Salter-Harris type is this fracture? Through which layer of the physis does the fracture normally occur and why?

If you saw a Salter-Harris type III on the AP view of the ankle and Salter-Harris type II, what would you be dealing with?

How would you fix this fragment on the x-rays above?

Is a transphyseal screw contraindicated?

 

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