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Salter-Harris III Fracture Distal Tibia

'''A case study of radiographic review. (Kyonghun Chong)'''

History: 12 year old female fell while ice skating; unable to bear weight.

The fracture site is at the distal tibia medial side in the epiphyseal growth plate (physis), complete type, non-displaced alignment, a combination of transverse and longitudinal direction, and articulated fracture. This image indicates a set of ankle A/p and lateral view X-ray image. Since this image states that the patient age is 12-year-old, we have to see that under children’s radiological feature. Children’ s radiological description has particular terminologies due to the anatomical feature, and it makes difficulties of assessment. I definitely could see that in this image. If we are not considering the epiphyseal growth plate, we will miss the fracture line very easily; the horizontal line which locates across the physeal plate. Additionally, soft tissue swelling appears in this image.

Reference

Jeff, T. (2015). Salter-Harris III fracture Distal Tibia. MyPACS.net, shared cases 10 of 1860. Retrieved from: http://www.mypacs.net/cgi-bin/repos/mpv4_repo/wrm/repo-view.pl?cx_subject=71729109&cx_repo=&cx_from_folder=1166622

