Eponymous fractures
Dr Yuranga Weerakkody and Dr Jeremy Jones et al.
There are numerous eponymous fractures who are named after the people who first described their existence 1.
- Bankart fracture : glenoid
- Barton fracture : wrist
- Bennett fracture : thumb
- Bosworth fracture : ankle
- Chance fracture : vertebral
- Charcot joint : foot
- Chopart fracture : foot
- Colles fracture : wrist
- Cotton fracture : ankle
- Danis-Weber classification : see Weber classification)
- Dupuytren fracture : ankle
- Duverney fracture : pelvic
- Essex-Lopresti fracture : elbow
- Freiberg infraction : foot
- Galeazzi fracture : forearm
- Gosselin fracture : ankle
- Goyrand fracture : French term for a Smith fracture
- Harris fracture (see Salter-Harris fractures)
- Hill-Sachs fracture : shoulder
- Holdsworth fracture : vertebral
- Hutchinson fracture : wrist
- Jefferson fracture : vertebral
- Jones fracture : foot
- Kienböck disease : hand
- Lauge-Hansen classification : ankle
- Le Fort facial fractures : facial
- Le Fort ankle fractures : ankle
- Lisfranc fracture : foot
- Maisonneuve fracture : ankle
- Malgaigne fracture : pelvis
- Monteggia fracture : forearm
- Osgood-Schlatter disease : knee
- Pelligrini-Stieda lesion : knee
- Piedmont fracture : another name for the Galeazzi fracture
- Pott fracture : ankle
- Pouteau fracture : French name for a Colles fracture
- reverse Barton fracture (type III Smith fracture)
- Robert Jones fracture (see Jones fracture)
- Rolando fracture : thumb
- Salter-Harris classification : growth plate
- Schatzker classification : knee
- Segond fracture : knee
- Shepherd fracture : foot
- Smith fracture : wrist
- Stieda fracture : can mean
- Tillaux fracture : ankle
- Weber classification : ankle
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