Tillaux fracture
| | |

Tillaux fracture

Introduction Tillaux fractures are traumatizing ankle injuries in children caused by a Salter-Harris III fracture of the anterolateral distal portion of the tibia the epiphysis. The irregular closure of the distal tibial physeal plate causes the mechanism of injury in a Tillaux fracture, resulting in the classic Tillaux fracture pattern in adolescent patients. This is…