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Fracture Description & Classification

Fracture Description & Classification. Regions Emergency Medicine. Anatomic description of fractures. Type Comminution Location Displacement. Anatomic description - Type. Type is the overall fracture pattern Examples are: Simple Spiral segmental. Anatomic description - Communition.

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Fracture Description & Classification

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  1. Fracture Description & Classification Regions Emergency Medicine

  2. Anatomic description of fractures • Type • Comminution • Location • Displacement

  3. Anatomic description - Type • Type is the overall fracture pattern • Examples are: • Simple • Spiral • segmental

  4. Anatomic description - Communition • Comminution is the measure of the number of pieces of broken bone that there are. • Examples are: non-comminuted or mildly comminuted or severely comminuted

  5. Anatomic description - Location • Location is the anatomic location of the fracture usually described by giving the bone involved and location on the bone • Examples are: distal radial shaft, proximal 1/3 humeral shaft, intra-articular distal tibial

  6. Anatomic description - Displacement • Displacement is the amount the pieces of a fracture have moved from their normal location • Can be displaced or non-displaced • Subdivided into 3 sub-categories: translation, angulation, and shortening

  7. Displacement - Translation • Translation is sideways motion of the fracture - usually described as a percentage of movement when compared to the diameter of the bone.

  8. Displacement - Angulation • Angulation is the amount of bend at a fracture described in degrees. Described with respect to the apex of the angle or with respect to direction of distal fragment.

  9. Displacement - Shortening • Shortening is the amount a fracture is collapsed expressed in centimeters. Sometimes called bayonette apposition.

  10. Anatomic description?

  11. Anatomic description • Simple, transverse, non-communited midshaft radial and ulnar fracture with 30 degrees apex radial angulation.

  12. Anatomic description??

  13. Anatomic description • Simple, transverse, non-communited distal radial and ulnar fracture with 100% radial translation, 45 degrees apex ulnar angulation and 2 cm of shortening.

  14. Why classify fractures? • Classification or description of fractures is only used when the classification or description is useful in providing treatment or outcomes

  15. Types of classifications • Anatomic description • AO classification • Salter-Harris classification • Gustillo open fracture classification • Fracture specific classifications

  16. AO Classification

  17. AO Classification • 1st number = long bone • 2nd number = bone segment • Letter = fracture type (A,B,C) • Then 3rd & 4th numbers classify fracture group & subgroup

  18. Salter-Harris Classification • Only used for pediatric fractures that involve the growth plate (physis) • Five types (I-V)

  19. Salter-Harris type I fracture • Type I fracture is when there is a fracture across the physis with no metaphysial or epiphysial injury

  20. Salter-Harris type II fracture • Type II fracture is when there is a fracture across the physis which extends into the metaphysis

  21. Salter-Harris type III fracture • Type III fracture is when there is a fracture across the physis which extends into the epiphysis

  22. Salter-Harris type IV fracture • Type IV fracture is when there is a fracture through metaphysis, physis, and epiphysis

  23. Salter-Harris type V fracture • Type V fracture is when there is a crush injury to the physis

  24. Gustillo classification • The Gustillo classification is used to classify open fracture - ones in which the skin has been disrupted • Three grades that try to quantify the amount of soft tissue damage associated with the fracture

  25. Open fractures - grade 1 • wound less than 1 cm w/ minimal soft tissue injury • wound bed is clean • bone injury is simple w/ minimal comminution • w/ IM nailing, average time to union is 21-28 weeks

  26. Open fractures - grade 2 • wound is greater than 1 cm w/ moderate soft tissue injury • wound bed is moderately contaminated • fracture contains moderate comminution • w/ IM nailing, average time to union is 26-28 weeks

  27. Open fractures - grade 3A • wound greater than 10 cm w/ crushed tissue and contamination • soft tissue coverage of bone is usually possible • w/ IM nailing, average time to union is 30-35 weeks

  28. Open fractures - grade 3B • wound greater than 10 cm w/ crushed tissue and contamination • soft tissue is inadequate and requires regional or free flap • w/ IM nailing, average time to union is 30-35 weeks

  29. Open fractures - grade 3C • is fracture in which there is a major vascular injury requiring repair for limb salvage • fractures can be classified using the MESS • in some cases it will be necessary to consider BKA following tibial fracture

  30. Thank You!

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