Extra-articular Fractures

 

Essex-Lopresti Classification

 

Extra-Articular  (25%) 

 

Posterior tuberosity avulsion

Anterior Process fracture

Body fracture

Sustentaculum Tali

 

Tuberosity fractures

 

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Body fractures

 

Non operative treatment

 

Anterior process

 

Calcaneum Anterior Process Fracture

 

Calcaneum Anterior Process Non UnionCalc ant process

 

Part of complex sprain

 

Management

 

Small

- non operative

- excise later if painful

 

Large and displaced

- ORIF

 

Sustentacular fractures

 

ORIF if displaced

 

Medial approach with buttress plate