Tillaux fracture | |
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Other names | Tillaux-Chaput avulsion fracture |
X-ray of a Tillaux fracture in an 11 year old female | |
Specialty | Orthopedic |
A Tillaux fracture is a Salter–Harris type III fracture through the anterolateral aspect of the distal tibial epiphysis.[1] 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,[2] due to an avulsion of the anterior inferior tibiofibular ligament, at the opposite end to a Wagstaffe-Le Fort avulsion fracture