page_title: Tillaux fracture
section_title: Mechanism
hierarchical_section_title: Tillaux fracture / Mechanism
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Anterolaterale Triplane-Fraktur der distalen Tibia bei einem 11-jährigen Mädchen: Tillaux-Fraktur. Computertomographie koronar, sagittal und axial. English: CT scan of a Tillaux fracture in an 11 year old female.
context_page_description: A Tillaux fracture is a Salter–Harris type III fracture through the anterolateral aspect of the distal tibial epiphysis. 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, due to an avulsion of the anterior tibiofibular ligament, at the opposite end to a Wagstaffe-Le Fort avulsion fracture
context_section_description: The fracture commonly results from an abduction-external rotation force, causing the anterior tibiofibular ligament to avulse the anterolateral corner of the distal tibial epiphysis resulting in a Salter Harris Type III fracture.
caption: Same case on CT scan.
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